Entre los miedos y violencia: La narratología del miedo

Abstract

One of the most debated topics in the communication in America Latina, had been the fears and social violence, and how the media has created a culture of terror through a narratology tending to combine the various violence and everyday life. Citizens have appropriated of these media narratologies as something close and own, assuming them as part of a normality of the social coexistence. The speeches about fears and violence set up stages that can denominate as post-apocalyptic that have led to live in societies trapped by anxiety and insecurity, and by this form creating a total show where all is visible and to some point the fears and violence have become an entertainment destined to satisfy a voyeuristic and complacent look of the population; the culture of fears and violence are assumed as owns where the citizens live a daily life that is in constant threat leading to formation of a reality or of an imaginary that disturbs the population. The present essay is a theoretical reflection that starts from a critical bibliographic review from a media narratology of violence, cultural and symbolic anthropology, and the various sociological speeches of these categories, and how the ways of telling fears, violence within contemporary journalism have been built.