%0 Journal Article %T Tecnologias da Comunica o, Horror e Fic o Cient¨ªfica: o caso de tr¨ºs filmes brasileiros %A C¨¢NEPA %A Laura Loguercio %J Contemporanea : Revista de Comunica£¿£¿o e Cultura %D 2012 %I Universidade Federal da Bahia %X This study is an analysis of three Brazilian films of the 1970¡¯s whose stories brought back the fantasy of a violent past with the articulated interest in the possibilities of exploring unknown worlds through communication technologies. The intention is to investigate how a cultural universe strongly bonded to the mysticism around past lives and ancestral curses is connected to the technological imagination, repeating a phenomenon seen in several national cinematographies, but gained in Brazil some particular haracteristics. %K Cinema %K Brazil %K Horror %K Science fiction %K Communication technologies %U http://www.portalseer.ufba.br/index.php/contemporaneaposcom/article/view/5674/4354