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 tri… Show more
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