Abstract

CANTARELLI, Natalia. When the view is captured: adolescents’ interest in horror movies nowadays: adolescence and its images . Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2019, vol.25, n.1, pp. 99-117. ISSN 1677-1168.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2019v25n1p99-117.

This research aimed to understand teenagers’ interest in horror movies nowadays. The study was carried out by means of a qualitative, exploratory approach using the focal group technique to collect data. The participants are sixteen adolescents, male and female, aged from 12 to 17 years old, attending a school in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Three focal groups were carried out, which were based on saturation criterion. Content analysis was used for data analysis, emerging two categories: "The horror in the place of absence" which overlooks the intimate relation between adolescence and horror movies, presenting and discussing the initial moments and those marked by importance within the relationship with the filmography; "From the solitary horror to the symbolic bound" which approaches the experience of watching movies as a possibility of expression of subjective truth, of sharing experiences, and the construction of a symbolic tie.

Keywords : Adolescence; Movies; Horror; Psychoanalysis.

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