Movies and the law: a practical vision of the use of a cultural resource at the magistracy preparatory courses and magistrates training

Abstract

This article presents the strategy of the use of the movies in the class as a didactical resource. The strategy integrates the plan of creative techniques in the courses of magistrates preparation and training that involves legal writing. The objective is to show how is the work with the use of movies to mobilize the sensorial me chanisms in the participants and the changes in the composition of the legal texts and also to present strategies to the teachers who willing to work with audiovisual resources, in this case, the movies. Thus, with the use of movies in the class, the students and teachers realize the cinematographic narrative construction in a particular context, they evaluate, criticize and identify elements that may bring reflections about life in society and about the possible textual productions, besides the audiovisual basic notions in their training to the magistracy exercise.