| Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Collins, Jo (Author), Jervis, J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0230517714 ISBN-13: 9780230517714 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Philosophy | Criticism - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 155.9 |
| LCCN: 2008000186 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.48" W x 8.74" (0.92 lbs) 244 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |