Fogo fátuo, fogo fatal pré-história e indeterminação na ficção científica

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Palhares, Edilson Rodrigues
• Orientador(a): Rangel, Lucia Helena Vitali
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Cinema; Ficção Científica; Fogo
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Science Fiction; Fire; Quest for Fire
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19070

This research presents reflections from an anthropological perspective about scientific, social and ethical questions, inherent to what, in popular conception, is by convention the beginning and the end of the civilizatory process. It is used as a system of references, in the first place, the collective imaginary about prehistoric man and, in second place, the uncertainness during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union in the last century. Thus, the selected research objects are science fiction movies (even if at first glance they do not seem to be part of this genre) that permit observing the ambiguous potentialities in the use of fire – the main character of this thesis. Those movies are “Quest for Fire”, from 1981, and “The Day After”, from 1983, being considered the suggestion, implicit in the first movie, that the production of fire in the Paleolithic Period was a significant mark for the separation of the ambits of “culture” and “nature” in man. In this way, “Quest for Fire” is the primary research object. This thesis aims to demonstrate that this movie, though it presents some mistaken conceptions about prehistory, can contribute to science education and publicizing, provided that, to didactic ends, its art is distinguished from science. In this proposition, the second movie is used as reinforcement, due to its historical importance and contemporary set of themes. In the theoretical basis are included Edgar Morin, regarding cinema and Anthropology; Darko Suyin, about science fiction (besides the directors of the two movies); and Gaston Bachelard, about the ambiguity of fire. It must be said that, unexpectedly, the life and work of J.-H. Rosny aîné, author of the novel from which “Quest for Fire” took its argument, became of great value to show how much the science fiction movies, usually underrated as works of intellectual content, can contribute to a better and perennial society