EBOOK CHALLENGE 1A

3. Read the abstract and answer the questions:
Horrors of Society
The Reflection of Societal Fears in American Horror Films
Lilek, B. (2020). Horrors of Society: The Reflection of Societal Fears in American Horror Films.
Digital Literature Review, 7. https://doi.org/10.33043
ABSTRACT
The foundation of the Hollywood horror film industry has always been constructed with metaphors of what
haunts American society. By utilizing what society fears in daily life and representing it with ghosts or monsters,
Hollywood was able to make movies scarier than they appeared to be on the surface. In the 1970s and
1980s, children’s television programming began to take the place of reading or playing as the number of
shows and channel rose. Parents began to fear that television programming would take over their children’s
lives. Moving through the decades and into the 2010s this fear only grew as cellphones, tablets, and laptops
became the obsession of American youth. The Hollywood film industry capitalized on these fears in movies
such as Poltergeist (1982) and Poltergeist (2015). These two films worked to represent current issues in
society while also predicting what America would become if these issues were not properly dealt with. 1980s
America did not resolve the issue of television and technology invading homes; thus, the problem grew as
Americans relied more heavily on technological advances. Looking through the lens of Poltergeist (1982) and
Poltergeist (2015) reveals the fears of past decades, how those fears have developed in 2010s American
culture, and where these representations of cultural fears will lead us next.
a) Is there an introduction to the topic? Are the objectives clear?
b) Is the methodology well stated?
c) What were the results?
d) What were the conclusions?
e) Is there any importante information missing in the abstract?
f) Do you think this abstract is well written? Compare it to the previews ones. Which one do you prefer?
4. Read the abstract and answer the questions:
The discursive disputes regarding racial identity in two Brazilian TV series
https://www.seer.ufrgs.br/sociologias/article/view/94329
This paper analyses two Brazilian television series, namely Sexo e as Negas and Mister Brau. The first one
portrays the intimacy of four black women from the slums, highlighting their sexuality. The other series,
called Mister Brau, had as its main theme the social ascension of a couple who acquired fame from popular
music. Both shows address intersectional issues such as race, social class, and gender, which require a
non-essentialist perspective that values interactions between media and society. The main question is: what
tensions and contradictions can we apprehend in these series’ content, relatively, regarding the discursive
lines about racial and gender issues? The shows have people of African descent as their protagonists, howe-
66 66
>>
Livro_ChallengeOnCampus [impressão] [08-02-22].indd 66 08/02/2022 22:47:35