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GARCIA BENITEZ, Carlos. The social function of cinema in times of pandemics. Rev. panam. comun. [online]. 2022, vol.4, n.1, pp.11-20.  Epub 27-Jun-2022. ISSN 2683-2208.  https://doi.org/10.21555/rpc.v4i1.2543.

This document proposes a series of reflections about cinema and how it was reconfigured during the COVID-19 pandemic in our country. Cinema, as an Industry, brings together several areas, some of the most important of which are production, distribution and exhibition. In this last one, audiences play an important role. Since cinema first appeared, it has never stopped surprising for the different social functions it has fulfilled for the audiences. However, with the arrival of the coronavirus, during the confinement, other functions seemed to reveal themselves, in this text we propose some of them, with the interest of helping to think cinema as a dynamic, vigorous communication phenomenom, in the context of the pandemic and in the face of the so called new normality.

Palavras-chave : Cinema; pandemic; industry; social function; platforms.