Ostrannenie
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Coined by the Russian formalist Victor Shklovsky in 1917, ostrannenie, or “making it strange”, has become one of the central concepts of modern artistic practice, ranging over movements that include Dada, postmodernism, epic theater, and science fiction, as well as our response to the arts. 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 reveal the range and depth of a concept that for nearly a century has been changing the trajectory of theoretical inquiry.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Ostran(n)enie as an "Attractive" Concept
Annie van den Oever
Part I: Theory Formation: Ostranenie, the Avant-Garde and The Cinema of Attractions
The Gesture of Revolution or Misquoting as Device
Yuri Tsivian
Ostranenie, "The Montage of Attractions" and Early Cinema's "Properly Irreducible Alien Quality"
Annie van den Oever
Part II: Mutations and Appropriations: Alienation Theories and Terminologies
Ostranenie, Innovation, and Media History
Frank Kessler
Knight's Moves: Brecht and Russian Formalism in Britain in the 1970s
Ian Christie
Ostranenie in French Film Studies: Translation Problems and Conflicting Interests
Dominique Chateau
Christian Metz and the Russian Formalists: A "Rendez-Vous Manqué"?
Emile Poppe
Part III: Cognitive and Evolutionary-Cognitive Approaches to Ostranenie: Perception, Cognitive Gaps and Cognitive Schemes
Should I See What I Believe? Audiovisual Ostranenie and Evolutionary-Cognitive Film Theory
Laurent Jullier
On Perception, Ostranenie, and Specificity
László Tarnay
Estrangement and the Representation of Life in Art
Barend van Heusden
The Perception of Reality as Deformed Realism
Miklós Kiss
Part IV: Discussions: On Ostranenie, Différance, and the Uncanny
Conversation with András Bálint Kovács
Laurent Jullier
Conversation with Laura Mulvey
Annie van den Oever
Notes
General Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Film Titles
Index of Subjects
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