Art, Cinema and Society: Sociological Perspectives

Jonas do Nascimento

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Jonas do Nascimento

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cinema, society, sociological theory, culture, artwork

Abstract

How can cinema be used to understand our society? Different sociologists asked throughout history this question. Generally, they assume that since all subjects act within social institutions, films necessarily tell us something about aspects of life in society. Besides, their "visual power," and their narratives, would be even able to shape our expectations in unconscious ways. That's because the "social life" is presented to us as orderly, where people accept prescribed roles that they find satisfactory or unsatisfactory. Some of them portray alienation and despair, as well as a series of ways in which people face their social conditions and the challenges that life imposes on them. In this sense, watching a film becomes a sociologically significant event as its experience affects us emotionally, psychologically, and pedagogically. Based on this, the paper aims to discuss some sociological perspectives on the relationship between art, cinema, and society.

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Art, Cinema and Society: Sociological Perspectives. (2019). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 19(C5), 19-28. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/3021

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