Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 10:16:07 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: PLC: TOC (+ promo)


FYI,
Reg



Announcing
Paradoxa Vol. 3, No. 3-4:  

"The Uncanny"

Announcing the publication of a special double issue of Paradoxa that focuses on
the topic of "The Uncanny" in contemporary film, literature, and culture. 
Updating traditional theories of "the double" and deja vu, this isssue is
essential reading for anyone particularly interested in film theory,
psychoanalyis and literature,
or the horror genre.

Paradoxa's special issue on "The Uncanny" features 20 original essays from
scholars worldwide, including such luminaries as Terry Castle, Lesley Stern,
Barry Grant, Isabel Pinedo, and William Paul.

"This superb collection of essays comes as a tonic antidote to those who would
dismiss the value of psychoanalytic film scholarship out of hand. The agreeably
diverse group of authors employs Freud's classic
text ["Das Unheimliche"] as a point of departure for a compelling investigation
of the uncanny's generic signatures (notably in weird cinema), as well as an
interrogation of an essential uncaniness residing within the medium itself. On
the latter score Lesley Stern's "I Think, Sebastian, Therefore ... I Somersault"
is alone worth the price of admission. The insights here and elsewhere are
plentiful, acute, and -- apposite to the subject -- often unsettling. The
writing crackles with lively intelligence."
              -- Harvey Roy Greenberg, M.D.
                 noted film critic and 
                author of Screen Memories

Visit Paradoxa's new web page:

http://www.accessone.com/~paradoxa
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Contents of Paradoxa, Vol. 3, Number 3-4:

Arnzen, Michael A.  
         "Introduction: The Return of the Uncanny" 
Paul, William.  
         "Uncanny Theater" 
Stern, Lesley.  
         "I Think, Sebastian, Therefore I ... Somersault: Film and the
         Uncanny" 
Norden, Martin.  
         "The  Uncanny Film Image of the Obsessive Avenger" 
Coffman, Elizabeth.  
         "Uncanny Performances in Colonial Narratives: Josephine 
         Baker in Princess Tam Tam" 
Masschelein, Anneleen. "Double Reading/Reading Double: 
         Psychoanalytic Poetics at Work" 
Pinedo, Isabel.  
         "The Wet Death and the Uncanny" 
Schneider, Steven. 
         "Uncanny Realism and the Decline of the Modern  
         Horror Film" 
Grant, Barry K. 
         Paradoxa Interview 
Mackenthun, Gesa.  
         "Haunted Real Estate" 
Kelso, Sylvia. 
         "The Postmodern Uncanny: or, Establishing Uncertainty" 
Ferreira, Maria Aline. 
         "The Uncanny (M)other: Angela Carter's The Passion of New 
         Eve" 
Coats, Karen.  
         "Underwriting the Uncanny: The Role of Children's  
         Literature in the Economy of the Subject" 
Aichele, George.  
         "Postmodern Fantasy, Ideology, and the Uncanny" 
Winchell, James.  
         "Century of the Uncanny" 
Castle, Terry.  
         Paradoxa Interview. 
McQuire, Scott. 
         "The Uncanny Home: Television, Transparency and 
         Overexposure" 
Batty, Nancy. 
         "America's Worst Nightmare...Roseanne!" 
Kunkle, Sheila. 
         "The Uncanny Effects of Cruelty" 
Arnzen, Michael A. 
         "Supermarketing the Uncanny: Anxiety at the Point-of-Sale."


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________________________________________________________________
   Michael A. Arnzen * Dept. of English * University of Oregon

     "We use up too much artistry in our dreams --
      and therefore often are impoverished during the day."
                                               -- Nietzsche
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