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Uncanny Histories in Film and Media
Edited by Patrice Petro
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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.
About the Author:
PATRICE PETRO is a professor of film and media studies, Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, and Presidential Chair in Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of thirteen books, including The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender.
Press Reviews:
"The exciting array of 'uncanny' histories gathered in this collection trouble familiar narratives in film and media studies. Centering marginalized spaces, figures, and texts, these essays show us how much of media history remains to be written."
— Shelley Stamp "With consummate mastery, Petro has collected provocative and inspirational contributions to a range of subfields in media studies—colonialism and its aftermath, game studies, race and representation, transnationalism, global markets, and the trajectory of feminism." — Mary Ann Doane "The exciting array of 'uncanny' histories gathered in this collection trouble familiar narratives in film and media studies. Centering marginalized spaces, figures, and texts, these essays show us how much of media history remains to be written." — Shelley Stamp "With consummate mastery, Petro has collected provocative and inspirational contributions to a range of subfields in media studies—colonialism and its aftermath, game studies, race and representation, transnationalism, global markets, and the trajectory of feminism." — Mary Ann Doane
See the publisher website: Rutgers University Press
> From the same author:
The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender (2018)
by Kristin Hole, Dijana Jelača, E. Kaplan and Patrice Petro
Subject: Sociology
Global Cities (2003)
Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age
Dir. Patrice Petro and Linda Krause
Subject: Economics
Joyless Streets (1989)
Women and Melodramatic Representation in Weimar Germany
> On a related topic:
How Film Histories Were Made (2023)
Materials, Methods, Discourses
Dir. Malte Hagener and Yvonne Zimmermann
Subject: History of Cinema
Mysteries of Cinema (2018)
Reflections on Film Theory, History and Culture 1982-2016
Subject: History of Cinema
Cinema's Conversion to Sound (2005)
Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S.
Subject: History of Cinema
The Image in Early Cinema (2018)
Form and Material
by Scott Curtis, Tom Gunning, Philippe Gauthier and Joshua Yumibe
Subject: Silent Cinema
A Dictionary of Film Studies (2020)
by Annette Kuhn and Guy Westwell
Subject: On Films > Guides and dictionaries
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