The uncanny gaze

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The Uncanny Gaze: The Drama of Early German Cinema (Women & Film History International) Paperback – Janu by Heide Schlupmann (Author), Inga Pollmann (Translator), Miriam Hansen (Foreword) & 0 moreCited by: 3.

'This is a brilliant book, Royle's writing is astonishingly adventurous. The book is indispensible to any study of the uncanny and thus to any study of literature.

A critical tour de force.' 'A playful, scholarly study. Densely and allusively argued, yet also full of pregnant by: The Uncanny Gaze The Drama of Early German Cinema.

The first English translation of a preeminent analysis of early German film. Heide Schlüpmann's classic study of early German cinema was published in German as Unheimlichkeit des Blicks: Das Drama des Frühen deutschen Kinos in This translation makes available for the first time in English her feminist examination of German cinema.

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Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required/5(24). The Uncanny. This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important concept for contemporary thinking and debate across a range of disciplines and discourses, including literature, film, architecture, cultural studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and queer theory.

The subject of the “uncanny” is a province of this kind. It undoubtedly belongs to all that is terrible—to all that arouses dread and creeping horror; it is equally certain, too, that the word is not always used in a clearly definable sense, so that it tends to coincide with whatever excitesFile Size: KB.

The Architectural Uncanny By Anthony Vidler Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unhomely" modern condition.

y Vidler is a conceptual conjurer of formidable skill. Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unhomely" modern condition.

The Architectural Uncanny presents an engaging and original series of meditations on issues and figures that are at the heart of the most pressing debates surrounding architecture today/5(3).

The uncanny is the psychological experience of something as strangely familiar, rather than simply mysterious. It may describe incidents where a familiar thing or event is encountered in an unsettling, eerie, or taboo context.

Sigmund Freud set out the concept of the uncanny in his essay Das Unheimliche. The Uncanny is a anthology horror film, concerning feline is directed by Denis Héroux, written by Michel Parry, and stars Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, Ray Milland, Joan Greenwood, Donald Pilon, Samantha Eggar, and John by: Wilfred Josephs.

It's This is a short but intricate essay where Freud looks closely at what could be called the uncanny feeling, the spooked out sensation that something is not quite how it should be. He describes it at times as a shift from the familiar to the eerie or estranged, a space where doubt, fear /5.

University of Illinois Press, More information can be found here Heide Schlüpmann's classic study of early German cinema was published in German as Unheimlichkeit des Blicks: Das Drama des Frühen deutschen Kinos in For the first time in English, this translation makes available her feminist examination of German cinema and Germany in the sociopolitical context of.

Description of the book "The Uncanny": This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history.

Much of this importance can be traced back to Freud's extraordinary essay of'The Uncanny' (Das Unheimliche). The Architectural Uncanny presents an engaging and original series of meditations on issues and figures that are at the heart of the most pressing debates surrounding architecture today.

Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unhomely" modern by: Chinese strange tale collections contain short stories about ghosts and animal spirits, supra-human heroes and freaks, exotic lands and haunted homes, earthquake and floods, and other perceived "anomalies" to accepted cosmic and social norms.

As such, this body of literature is a rich repository of Chinese myths, folklore, and unofficial "histories.". The last essay, 'The Uncanny' of the book's title, holds the most interest, especially if viewed, as quoted in the introduction to the book, as 'less like an essay than like a strange theoretical novel' (Helene Cixous); it really does feel like reading a good horror story.4/5.

“In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty whether a particular figure in the story is a human being or an automaton and to do it in such a way that his attention is not focused directly upon his uncertainty, so that he may not be led to go into the matter and clear it up immediately.”.

A wealthy Hollywood cowboy-cum-movie-producer travels to England in the hope of seeing a ghost, or a voice from beyond: "Something uncanny, you know. Anything. One lousy uncanny thing.". He hangs out with a marvelous old woman--a professional skeptic armed with a sword cane and an ever-puffing pipe with a skull-shaped bowl--and /5(24).

Gaze in Lacan's later work refers to the uncanny sense that the object of our eye's look or glance is somehow looking back at us of its own will.

This uncanny feeling of being gazed at by the object of our look affects us in the same way as castration anxiety (reminding us. The uncanny is the weird, the strange, the mysterious, a mingling of the familiar and the unfamiliar. Even Freud, patron of the uncanny, had trouble defining it.

Yet the uncanny is everywhere in contemporary culture. In this elegant book, Nicholas Royle takes the reader across literature, film, philosophy, and psychoanalysis as he marks the trace of the uncanny in the modern world.

As a ghostly feeling and concept, however, the uncanny has a complex history going This is the first book-length study of the uncanny, an important topic for contemporary thinking on literature, film, philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism and queer history/5.Like Jentsch, Freud identifies the uncanny as “that class of frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar.”9 In an attempt to uncover how exactly “the familiar can become uncanny and frightening,” he begins by an examination of the word’s “linguistic use.”10 As with the English, the German word for.