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An Investigation into the uncanny: character design, behaviour and context. [PDF]
Whilst there has been a substantial amount of research into the uncanny valley, defining research that contextualises a character as they would normally be viewed remains an unexplored area.
Tharib, S
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The Journal of Aesthetics and Art CriticismAbstract Many authors have remarked on the relationship between the aesthetic categories of the sublime and the uncanny. Building on a suggestion made by Cynthia Freeland, my aim in this paper is to show how, once inverted, Kant’s theory of the sublime provides a valuable resource for developing a novel theoretical approach to the ...
Windsor, Mark, Windsor, Mark,
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, 2022 Uncanny Intimacies discusses human-nonhuman relationships in a time of climate change through the writing of my novel ...
Riley, P.
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Uncanny spaces for higher education: teaching and learning in virtual worlds [PDF]
, 2008 This paper brings together the theory of the uncanny as it emerges in cultural theory, with an understanding of the uncanniness and troublesomeness seen to be inherent in certain understandings of teaching and learning in higher education.
Bayne, Sian +2 more
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Spectral—Fragile—(Un)homely: The Haunting Presence of Francesca Woodman in the House and Space2 Series [PDF]
Avant, 2017 In the House and Space2 photographic series, Francesca Woodman captures the environments that may be considered disruptive; still, it is a female model—in her inconstant poses, always partially blurred or hidden—that holds the viewer’s attention.
Anna Kisiel
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The Moral Uncanny in Black Mirror [electronic resource] /
, 2021 This erudite volume examines the moral universe of the hit Netflix show Black Mirror. It brings together scholars in media studies, cultural studies, anthropology, literature, philosophy, psychology, theatre and game studies to analyse the significance ...
Gibson, Margaret +3 more
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Of Holes and Wounds: Postcolonial Trauma and the Gothic in Catherine Jinks’s The Road
ES Review, 2018 This paper analyses Catherine Jinks’s The Road (2004), a multi-protagonist novel, looking into the relationship between personal and historical forms of trauma in the context of postcolonial Australia and following Rothberg’s comparatist approach.
Bárbara Arizti Martín
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Netflix dramedy 'After Life' and the uncanny nature of grief [PDF]
, 2022 The concept of das unheimlich (Jentsch 1902), or the uncanny, is applied to the phenomenology of grief and the manner loss transforms a person’s familiar life-world into an uncertain and unfamiliar space.
Schott, Gareth R.
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The uncanny mediality of the photographic GIF
NECSUS, 2018 This article examines uncanny mediality in photographic GIFs by interrogating sources of this uncanniness and the logic informing its operation in particular examples.
Arild Fetveit
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Enstranged Strangers: OOO, the Uncanny, and the Gothic
Open Philosophy, 2019 Exploring the links between Speculative Realism, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism, this article examines OOO’s entanglement with the ‘uncanny’. Reading OOO against three notable treatments of the concept - Sigmund Freud’s 1919 essay “The ‘Uncanny’”,
Bartholomew H.G.
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