Uncanny Histories in Film and Media

"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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Petro, Patrice
Other Authors: Bloom, Peter, Chang, Alenda, Corrigan, Maria, DeCelles, Naomi, Goodwin, Hannah, Jaikumar, Priya, Salazkina, Masha, Scott, Ellen C., Trice, Jasmine Nadua
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2022.
Series:Media Matters Ser.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Series Editors
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Uncanny Histories / Patrice Petro
  • Part I: The Disciplinary Uncanny
  • 1. Film and Media in the Double Take of History / Priya Jaikumar
  • 2. Haunted by the Body: Cleanliness in Colonial Manila's Film Culture / Jasmine Trice
  • 3. Reimagining the History of Media Studies through Games, Play, and the Uncanny Valley / Alenda Y. Chang
  • Part II: Uncanny Films
  • 4. Flickering Lights and Mischievous Stars: The Uncanny Feminism of My Twentieth Century / Hannah Goodwin
  • 5. The Sublime Body under the Sign of Developmentalism: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Malaysian Politics, and Global Markets / Peter J. Bloom
  • 6. Uncanny Histories of Transnational Cinematic Reception: Eisenstein in Cuba / Masha Salazkina
  • Part III: Uncanny Figures
  • 7. Julio García Espinosa and the Fight for a Critical Culture in Cuba / Cristina Venegas
  • 8. The Case for (Re)collecting Lotte Eisner's Work / Naomi Decelles
  • 9. A Widow's Work: Archives and the Construction of Russian Film History / Maria N. Corrigan
  • 10. Fiendish Devices: The Uncanny History of Almena Davis / Ellen C. Scott
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index