Olhares críticos sobre o horror e seu processo de legitimação

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Rodrigo Carreiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication (PPGCOM) and the Bachelor's Program in Cinema and Audiovisual at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), with a postdoctoral fellowship at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). He has been a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow since 2020. His research focuses on sound design and popular film genres, particularly horror and thriller. He has published more than 60 scholarly articles, edited nine collections, and authored seven books, including O som do filme: uma introdução (Editora da UFPR, 2018, with Débora Opolski and João Godoy), A linguagem do cinema: uma introdução (Editora da UFPE, 2021), and Cinema de horror: uma introdução (Gênio Editorial, 2025, with Laura Loguercio Cánepa).

Laura Loguercio Cánepa, Universidade Paulista

Professor in the Graduate Program in Communication (PPGCOM) at Universidade Paulista (UNIP) and in the Graduate Program in Cultural Journalism at Centro Universitário Belas Artes, São Paulo. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Escola de Comunicações e Artes of the Universidade de São Paulo (ECA-USP) and was a visiting researcher at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom). She has been a CNPq Research Productivity Fellow since 2025. Her research focuses on horror cinema, Brazilian cinema, and new audiovisual media. She founded Insólita – Revista Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Insólito, da Fantasia e do Imaginário. She has edited several collections, including Brazilian Horror Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Neofascism, Disaffection, Resistance (Tamesis, 2023), co-edited with Stephanie Dennison. She is co-author of Cinema de horror: uma introdução (Gênio Editorial, 2025, with Rodrigo Carreiro).

Tiago Monteiro, Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Ph.D. in Communication from the Universidade Federal Fluminense. Associate Professor in the Bachelor's Program in Cultural Production and the Graduate Specialization Program in Artistic Languages, Culture, and Education at the Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ), Nilópolis Campus, where he coordinates the Audiovisual Creation Center. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, conducting research on the fantastic in the work of Jean Garrett. His research interests include the uncanny and horror in media culture, popular genre cinema, exploitation cinema, and other audiovisual manifestations situated at the margins of established canons.

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2026-08-10

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2026): Rebeca 30

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