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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bloom, Peter J.,; Bloom, Peter,; Chang, Alenda Y.,; Chang, Alenda,; Corrigan, Maria N.,; Corrigan, Maria,; DeCelles, Naomi,; Decelles, Naomi,; Goodwin, Hannah,; Jaikumar, Priya,; Petro, Patrice,; Salazkina, Masha,; Scott, Ellen C.,; Trice, Jasmine Nadua,; Trice, Jasmine,; Venegas, Cristina,
• HerausgeberIn: Petro, Patrice,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Media Matters
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (218 p.) :; 14 b&w images

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION Uncanny Histories -- Part 1 THE DISCIPLINARY UNCANNY -- 1 • FILM AND MEDIA IN THE DOUBLE TAKE OF HISTORY -- 2 • HAUNTED BY THE BODY Cleanliness in Colonial Manila’s Film Culture -- 3 • REIMAGINING THE HISTORY OF MEDIA STUDIES THROUGH GAMES, PLAY, AND THE UNCANNY VALLEY -- Part 2 UNCANNY FILMS -- 4 • FLICKERING LIGHTS AND MISCHIEVOUS STARS The Uncanny Feminism of My Twentieth Century -- 5 • THE SUBLIME BODY UNDER THE SIGN OF DEVELOPMENTALISM The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Malaysian Politics, and Global Markets -- 6 • UNCANNY HISTORIES OF TRANSNATIONAL CINEMATIC RECEPTION Eisenstein in Cuba -- Part 3 UNCANNY FIGURES -- 7 • JULIO GARCÍA ESPINOSA AND THE FIGHT FOR A CRITICAL CULTURE IN CUBA -- 8 • THE CASE FOR (RE)COLLECTING LOTTE EISNER’S WORK -- 9 • A WIDOW’S WORK Archives and the Construction of Russian Film History -- 10 • FIENDISH DEVICES The Uncanny History of Almena Davis -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX