Using film, literature, and perspectives from cultural theory, this book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience.
JO COLLINS is Teaching Assistant in Cultural Studies in the Department of English and American Literature at the University of Kent.
JOHN JERVIS is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent.
Notes on the Contributors
p. vii
Introduction
p. 1
Uncanny Presences
p. 10
Night and the Uncanny
p. 51
Uncanny Reflections, Modern Illusions: Sighting the Modern Optical Uncanny
p. 68
As It Happened ... Borderline, the Uncanny and the Cosmopolitan
p. 91
Access Denied: Memory and Resistance in the Contemporary Ghost Film
p. 112
The Uncanny After Freud: The Contemporary Trauma Subject and the Fiction of Stephen King
p. 128
'Neurotic Men' and a Spectral Woman: Freud, Jung and Sabina Spielrein
p. 146
The Urban Uncanny: The City, the Subject, and Ghostly Modernity
p. 168
Profane Illuminations, Delicate and Mysterious Flames: Mass Culture and Uncanny Gnosis
p. 181
Terrorism and the Uncanny, or, The Caves of Tora Bora
p. 201
Document: 'On the Psychology of the Uncanny' (1906): Ernst Jentsch
p. 216
Index
p. 229
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