Framing Anxiety. Intermedial Techniques of the Uncanny

Series Film and Media Studies Issues Volume 24, 2023 – Uncanny Intermediality Framing Anxiety. Intermedial Techniques of the Uncanny

Volume 24, 2023 – Uncanny Intermediality

Michaela Wünsch

Acta Univ. Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies, 24 (2023) 217–228

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2023-0022

Abstract. The article deals with techniques of the uncanny that are used in horror films, especially in movies that show frames within the image frame and particularly frames of television sets. The author situates the concrete device of framing in the context of medial technology and intermediality, not least the mediality of the television, its representation in movies and the resultant uncanny aspects. Distinctions are then made between the uncanny and anxiety with regard to the effects of framing, especially in relation to the specific status of a framed gaze. The author uses examples from Japanese and US-American horror films.

Keywords: uncanny, horror film, intermediality, television in film, Halloween.

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Volume 24, 2023 – Uncanny Intermediality

Uncanny (Inter)Mediality and Photo Futures, Arild Fetveit Uncanny Colours of the Past. Phenomenological Notes on Remediation and Colourization of Black-and-White Footage, Kamilla Simor The Uncanniness of Intermediality. Joanna Hogg’s Eerily Self-Reflexive Cinema, Ágnes Pethő Filial Care and Familial Postmemory. On the Uncanny and Affective Intermediality of Analogue Media Use in Recent European Documentaries, Melinda Blos-Jáni The Crisis of Care and Uncanny Intersensuality in Sally Potter’s The Roads Not Taken, Judit Pieldner Rural Landscapes and Affective Encounters in Radu Muntean’s Film, Întregalde, Katalin Sándor Ritual as Intermedial Interjection in Ritwik Ghatak’s The Cloud-Capped Star, Sanskriti Chattopadhyay, Deb Kamal Ganguly Jane Austen and the Uncanny: The Colonial Past in Patricia Rozema’s Adaptation, Mansfield Park, Polina Rybina Media Representation and Affective Intermediality in Der Tote im Bunker and Vielleicht Esther, Giulia Bigongiari Medium Specific Uncanny in Contemporary Video Games, Tamás Csönge Pandora’s Myth and Cultural Trauma in Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, Boglárka Farkas Framing Anxiety. Intermedial Techniques of the Uncanny, Michaela Wünsch Front pages in PDF, Inside covers in PDF,

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