{"title":"“The Population Needs to Know the Dangers They Face!”: Cinematic Consumption and Rhetoric of Fear in Belle Époque Rio de Janeiro","authors":"Pedro Vinicius Asterito Lapera","doi":"10.1590/1806-93472023v43n92-08-i","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article addresses the journalistic series Cinemas-arapucas (Trap-cinemas), published by the newspaper A Noite between August 8 and 16, 1912, which denounced some movie theaters in the central areas of Rio de Janeiro because of noncompliance with rules related to public safety. We intend to verify how the journalistic series was inserted in the dissemination of a rhetoric of fear regarding cinematographic consumption - and, by extension, with which other fears it engaged and what mechanisms of power it triggered from this. As a central question, our proposal is to analyze the Cinemas-arapucas series to verify some relations among the press, authorities, cinematographers, and cinema audiences in Rio de Janeiro in the first decades of the 20th century. To do so, we used the evidential paradigm methodology, as proposed by Carlo Ginzburg.","PeriodicalId":44557,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Historia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Revista Brasileira de Historia","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-93472023v43n92-08-i","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT This article addresses the journalistic series Cinemas-arapucas (Trap-cinemas), published by the newspaper A Noite between August 8 and 16, 1912, which denounced some movie theaters in the central areas of Rio de Janeiro because of noncompliance with rules related to public safety. We intend to verify how the journalistic series was inserted in the dissemination of a rhetoric of fear regarding cinematographic consumption - and, by extension, with which other fears it engaged and what mechanisms of power it triggered from this. As a central question, our proposal is to analyze the Cinemas-arapucas series to verify some relations among the press, authorities, cinematographers, and cinema audiences in Rio de Janeiro in the first decades of the 20th century. To do so, we used the evidential paradigm methodology, as proposed by Carlo Ginzburg.
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The Revista Brasileira de História is the official organ of the Associação Nacional de História - ANPUH (National Association of History), published biannually. ANPUH is a scientific association founded in 1961, which congregates teachers and researchers of history, aiming at the improvement of teaching in the various levels of the field. The association also aims to study, research and promote history subjects, as well as to safeguard historical sources and cultural manifestations that are of interest to the historical studies. ANPUH promotes the exchange of ideas among its members through the publication of periodicals, and the organization of national symposia, regional meetings, special courses, and other programs in the field.