As representações visuais do mal na comunicação: imaginário moderno e pós-moderno em imagens de A Divina Comédia e do filme Constantine

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Cappellari, Márcia Schmitt Veronezi
• Orientador(a): Rahde, Maria Beatriz Furtado
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: COMUNICAÇÃO SOCIAL; COMUNICAÇÃO E IMAGINÁRIO; IMAGENS - REPRESENTAÇÃO; COMUNICAÇÃO VISUAL; BEM E MAL
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/2011

This thesis aims at investigating the visual representations of evil, focusing on the analysis of Gustave Doré’s illustrations to Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy and the images of Francis Lawrence’s motion picture Constantine. With the objective of understanding how such images were embedded in both modern and postmodern imaginaries, this study is grounded on the philosophical conception of evil, as means of understanding its both complexity and adaptability. In order to proceed the necessary investigations and obtain outcomes that could prove this thesis, the depth hermeneutics of John B. Thompson (1995) was employed as an effective path. This methodology enabled the analyses of the images as symbolic forms, and, from formal-discursive and socio-historical analyses, it was possible to develop an interpretation/re-interpretation of the subject matter. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is fullfilled, as its results shows that visual representations of evil are subjected to the imaginary accordingly to the period in time. During modernity, they carried a strong load of morality; in postmodernity, they are influenced by a less determinist way of life, causing a proximity between the concepts of good and evil.