Uncanny Histories in Film and Media / edited by Patrice Petro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petro, Patrice, 1957- editor.

Series:

MediaMatters.

Media Matters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in mass media.

Mass media--Philosophy.

Mass media.

Mass media--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Uncanny Histories in Film and Media brings together a stellar lineup of established and emergent scholars who explore the uncanny twists and turns that are often occluded in larger accounts of film and media. Prompted by fresh archival research and new conceptual approaches, the works included here probe the uncanny as a mode of historical analysis that reveals surprising connections and unsettling continuities. The uncanny stands for what often eludes us, for what remains unfamiliar or mysterious or strange. Whether writing about film movements, individual works, or the legacies of major or forgotten critics and theorists, the contributors remind us that at the heart of the uncanny, and indeed the writing of history, is a troubling of definitions, a challenge to our inherited narratives, and a disturbance of what was once familiar in the uncanny histories of our field"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Uncanny histories / Patrice Petro

Pt. 1. The disciplinary uncanny

Film and media in the double take of history / Priya Jaikumar

Haunted by the body: cleanliness in colonial Manila's film culture / Jasmine Trice

Reimagining the history of media studies through games, play and the uncanny valley / Alenda Chang

Pt. 2. Uncanny films

Flickering lights and mischievous stars: the uncanny feminism of my twentieth century / Hanna Goodwin

The sublime body under the sign of developmentalism: the Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Malaysian politics and global markets / Peter J. Bloom

Uncanny histories of transnational cinematic receptions: Eisenstein in Cuba / Masha Salazkina

Pt. 3. Uncanny figures

Julia García Espinosa and the fight for a critical culture in Cuba / Cristina Venegas

The case for (re)collecting Lotte Eisner's work / Naomi DeCelles

A widow's work: archives and the construction of Russian film history / Maria N. Corrigan

Fiendish devices: the uncanny history of Almena Davis / Ellen C. Scott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-9788-2997-3

OCLC:

1309016626