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Illusory Interior: Public Housing as Uncanny Site
Interiority, 2023 In 2021, Indonesia participated in the London Design Biennale, focusing on the theme of Resonance. The pavilion's response centred around public housing as an uncanny site, examining the psychological barriers faced by evicted communities during their ...
Dea Aulia Widyaevan
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« Shots in mirrors » : Les jeux de miroir dans No Country For Old Men (Coen 2007)
Revue LISA, 2023 In her essay Shots in the Mirror (2000), Nicole Rafter emphasized the appeal of including mirrors in thrillers. More significantly, she described the thriller genre as a mirror of society, thus considering both the object and its metaphorical character ...
Julie Assouly
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Uncanny: a dimension of contemporary art
, 2008 The article features in the second issue dedicated to fear of Esse arts and opinions, a bilingual journal (French/English) and considers the concept of the uncanny as contemporary category across contemporary art.
Albano, Caterina
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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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The Uncanny valley theory, which tells us that almost-human characteristics in a robot or a device could cause uneasiness in human observers, is an important research theme in the Human Robot Interaction (HRI) field.
Matthieu eDestephe +6 more
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Confluenze, 2022 As an anomalous and transgressive novel, Jorge Barón Biza’s The Desert and Its Seed (1998) has become a classic of Argentine literature in recent decades. In this paper we are interested in approaching its reading based on its link with that “Gothic mode”
Agustín Conde De Boeck
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Theory, the uncanny and the sacred [PDF]
, 2014 This paper examines the related but different concepts of the uncanny and the sacred. Drawing on two cases – one fictional and one real – and using Žižek’s Symbolic-Real-Imaginary as an organising frame, the paper analyses how the uncanny and the sacred ...
Kavanagh, Donncha
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Weak monstrosity. Schelling’s uncanny and atmospheres of uncanniness
Studi di Estetica, 2021 This paper aims to examine the very unstable concept of the “uncanny” (das Unheimliche) from an atmospherological point of view. Its official theoretical “sanction” is due to Heidegger, who considered it the latent but fundamental ground of any being-in-
Tonino Griffero
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Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 2023 The literary works of W. G. Sebald, namely, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn, possess biographical and historical undertones while incorporating fictional elements.
Tianxue Han
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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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