Reflexão acerca do imaginário social na ótica do cuidado religioso em enfermagem a partir do cinema moderno.

Introduction: Modern cinema emerged in the 1940s, contradicting classical aesthetics in its productions and leading to a reflection on its validation as an artistic theory. Objectives: To describe and analyze the social imaginary surrounding the representation of the religious nurse portrayed in the 1959 film "The Nun's Story," contextualized in the period of modern cinema, considering the cultural, historical, and technical context. Methodology: This is a qualitative, analytical, and historical-social-cultural research, based on the theoretical framework of the "Social Imaginary" and the philosophical framework of Max Scheler's Theory of Values, which aims to endorse the emotional and rational aspects of the religious nurse portrayed in the film, from a modernist perspective. Results: The religious nurse assumes a clerical stance in care as the core of charitable care. Cinema led its emotional narrative prone to Christian affection, but in the modern current, the rational acts aware of the limitations that dogma compels them to, interfering in their professional scientific practice. Conclusion: The language of cinema allows us to transpose credible figures into narratives under the tutelage of the social imaginary, the nurse being one of them. In this production, fictional freedom analyzes in a visual format its moral values in the current society, confirming cinema as a unique art for representing timeless contexts of its social actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]