Uncanny Histories in Film and Media probes the uncanny as a mode of historical analysis. Whether writing about film movements, individual works, or the legacies of major or forgotten critics and theorists, the contributors challenge our inherited narratives to reveal a disturbance of what was once familiar in the histories of our field.
 

PATRICE PETRO is a professor of film and media studies, Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center, and Presidential Chair in Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of thirteen books, including The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Uncanny Histories
Part I: The Disciplinary Uncanny
Chapter 1: Film and Media in the Double Take of History
Chapter 2: Haunted by the Body: Cleanliness in Colonial Manila's Film Culture
Chapter 3: Reimagining the History of Media Studies through Games, Play, and the Uncanny Valley
Part II: Uncanny Films
Chapter 4: Flickering Lights and Mischievous Stars: The Uncanny Feminism of My Twentieth Century
Chapter 5: The Sublime Body under the Sign of Developmentalism: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Malaysian Politics and Global Markets
Chapter 6: Uncanny Histories of Transnational Cinematic Receptions: Eisenstein in Cuba
Part III: Uncanny Figures
 Chapter 7: Julio García Espinosa and the Fight for a Critical Culture in Cuba
Chapter 8: The Case for (Re)collecting Lotte Eisner's Work
Chapter 9: A Widow's Work: Archives and the Construction of Russian Film History
Chapter 10: Fiendish Devices: The Uncanny History of Almena Davis
Notes on contributors
Index