Luz Câmera Ação: a representação do bibliotecário no cinema.

Abstract

This academic work is the result of the analysis of 20 movies produced between 2000 and 2010, depicting librarian characters, with the objective of analyzing how the cinema builds the representation of the librarian. For such, it discusses about the concept of imaginary and representation, about cinema’s history, considering it an information source, a cultural mediator that, in representing the librarian on screen, in many times stereotyped, distances the professional from their acting, attributions, demands and professional minutiae, moving to an analysis of the representations within the movies through pre-established criteria. This research is configured as exploratory-descriptive, with qualitative approach, using of bibliographic material related to the topic, such as history, informational science, history and art, which establishes criteria for analysis – positive, negative and neutral – of the films that compose the body of the research, by establishing parameters of comparison between the cinematographic representation, the professional doing and the social gaze cast on the librarian. It concludes that the librarian’s representation in cinema is still heavily influenced by the stereotype of a hostile person that lacks, or ignores, new technologies, although modern production appear to have distanced themselves from such image, even parodying it.