A Imagem do jornalista no cinema

Abstract

This Course Conclusion Work was the research, planning and production of the documentary video The image of the journalist in cinema. The film aimed to show how the film industry portrays the image of the professional journalist in the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on an image of the journalist as a hero versus an image of the journalist as a villain. During 19 minutes and 20 seconds, this dynamic is explored with the help of interviews, a bibliographic research on the subject and filmic scenes that explain the reasoning created. During the making of the work, consulting authors such as Bill Nichols (2007), Stella Senra (1997), Fernando Mascarello (2006), Eduardo Coutinho (2007), Fernão Persons Ramos (2008), etc., it was possible to notice that this image does not represent a change or an evolution in how the films see the journalist, but rather a reflection of all the facets that the professional of the journalism can have and that, sometimes, result in stereotypes that put in check crucial questions like the professional ethics of the journalist, his values, their vanities and their distance from the facts.