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Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties

By John Jervis , Jo Collins

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0230517714, 9780230517714, 9780230582828
LCC
BF57 .U53 2008
Open Library ID
OL10194388M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
923 kB (945364 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
256\243
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The uncanny is an experience of disorientation, where the world suddenly seems strange, alienating or threatening. Using film, literature, and perspectives from cultural theory, this book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern world view and the security of modern self-identity, just as the latter may themselves be implicated in the production of these experiences as uncanny.

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