Name: ALICE DA ROCHA PERINI

Publication date: 27/02/2020
Advisor:

Name	Role
RAFAELA SCARDINO LIMA PIZZOL	Advisor *
RAFAELA SCARDINO LIMA PIZZOL	Co-advisor *

Examining board:

Name	Role
SÉRGIO DA FONSECA AMARAL	Internal Alternate *

Pages

Summary: This thesis intends to investigate how fear moves from one place to another
in horror literature. The main idea is that, until the 1960‘s, fear was not able
to trespass house doors. In 1967, Ira Levin opens those doors in
Rosemary’s Baby. The Cold War at the time, along with significant events
in the United States played an important part in Levin‘s work, taking the
object of fear to middle-class households, making other horror writers do
the same thing in their novels. The analysis is based in the ideas of Noël
Carroll, Zygmunt Bauman, Sigmund Freud, Paul Newman, Jean Delumeau,
Júlio França and Luiz Costa Lima, when it comes to the link found between
horror literature and society. The main point of this research is, therefore,
to present the moment when fear gets inside the domestic, familiar scenario
in horror literature, also how this fact relates to reality in the United States
during the 1960‘s.

Key-words: fear; horror; society; United States; Cold War.

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