Ostrannenie: On "Strangeness" and the Moving Image. The History, Reception, and Relevance of a Concept: 1 (The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies)

ISBN 10: 9089640797 / ISBN 13: 9789089640796

Published by Routledge, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ostrannenie: On "Strangeness" and the Moving Image. The History, Reception, and Relevance of a Concept: 1 (The Key Debates: Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9089640797
• ISBN 13: 9789089640796
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 476.3 grams

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Synopsis

Ostrannenie (‘making it strange’) has become one of the central concepts of modern artistic practice, ranging over movements including Dada, postmodernism, epic theatre, and science fiction, as well as our response to arts. Coined by the ‘Russian Formalist’ Viktor Shklovsky in 1917, ostrannenie has come to resonate deeply in Film Studies, where it entered into dialogue with the Brechtian concept of Verfremdung, the Freudian concept of the uncanny and Derrida's concept of différance. Striking, provocative and incisive, the essays of the distinguished film scholars in this volume recall the range and depth of a concept that since 1917 changed the trajectory of theoretical inquiry.

About the Author

Annie van den Oever is a Professor of Film at the University of Groningen and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg (since March 2024). Recent books: Doing Experimental Media Archaeology. Theory(De Gruyter, 2022, with Andreas Fickers); and Visual Media, Distortions, and the Grotesque as a Dominant Format Today (AUP 2024, forthcoming).