Ostrannenie: On "strangeness" and the Moving Image : the History, Reception, and Relevance of a ConceptAnnie van den Oever 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. |
Contents
Editorial | 7 |
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Ostrannenie as anAttractive Concept | 11 |
PART I Theory Formation Ostraneniethe AvantGarde and The Cinema of Attractions | 19 |
Part II Mutations and Appropriations Alienation Theories and Terminologies | 59 |
Part III Cognitive and EvolutionaryCognitive Approaches to Ostranenie PerceptionCognitive Gaps and Cognitive Schemes | 117 |
Part IV Discussions On OstranenieDifférance and the Uncanny | 173 |
Notes | 205 |
General Bibliography | 241 |
Notes on Contributors | 255 |
Index of Names | 259 |
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Common terms and phrases
aesthetic alienation Amsterdam analysis András Bálint Kovács approach argue Art as Technique artistic automatized avant-garde Boris Eichenbaum Brecht Cambridge camera Christian Metz Cinema in Russia Cinema of Attractions cognitive concept of ostranenie context critical David Bordwell deautomatization defamiliarization Deleuze den Oever devices Dziga Vertov early cinema edited effect Eichenbaum Eisenstein essay estrangement experience Film Studies film theory filmmakers French Freud Futurists gesture Gunning habitual human Ibid idea impact Jakobson language Laura Mulvey literary literature London Mayakovsky means medium montage Moving Image narrative object OPOYAZ ostranenie Paris perceived perception perspective Poetics Poetika Kino psychology reality representation Richard Russian Formalism Russian Formalists Russian Futurism Screen semiosis semiotic sense Sergei Eisenstein Shklovsky's Soviet specific spectator Symbolists term texts things tion Tolstoy tradition trans translation Tynyanov uncanny understand unfamiliar University Press Vertov viewer Viktor Shklovsky visual Vladimir Vladimir Pozner word York Yuri Tsivian