Cinema and Audiovisual as Ethical Instruments for the Dissemination of Human Rights

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze the behavior of audiovisual and cinematographic production over time, in its main and diffuse means of communication, in view of the spread of human and fundamental rights and the applicability of themes such as ethics, culture and education. Through the study of the insertion of cinema in the context of the cultural industry – located under the critical perspective of Adorno and Horkheimer – , of the possibilities of reinvention arising from movements of rupture with the standardized ways of making cinema and the observation of stories developed in contemporary times that enable the emergence of humanist guidelines, this article seeks to present narratives committed to ethical assumptions in audiovisual and cinematographic productions. In addition, this work seeks to point out the crossings that such creations can go through in the face of the responsibility of displaying contents engaged in the dissipation of prejudices, in the formation of citizens and in the construction of a more just and egalitarian society.