Science in feminine. The construction of the role of the female scientist in film discourse
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2023.vi27.16527Keywords:
Science, women, cinema, audiovisual, representation, genderAbstract
Throughout history, women scientists have been invisibilised and overshadowed in academia and science. Due to socio-cultural and political issues, women's late access to science systems has led to a significant gender gap today. In this sense, the media and the visual arts - such as the film genre - have perpetuated themselves as strong vehicles of representation that perpetuate or combat current imaginaries of inequality. Given this situation, the aim of this article is to analyse the representation and, consequently, the construction of the public image of women scientists through cinematographic narrative. To this end, we confront works from different periods and film genres - from biographies to science fiction - in which the role of the female scientist is analysed: Madame Curie (1943), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), Contact (1997), A Dangerous Method (2011) and Radioactive (2019). The results of the research deduce the importance of an unbiased look at the construction of female roles in science and how the current reality of the female scientist does not adapt to the classic archetypes traditionally represented in the film genre
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