Uncanny Valleys: Austrian Literature and Film in the New Millennium

Heide Kunzelmann; Lyn Marven

Uncanny Valleys
Austrian Literature and Film in the New Millennium

Edited by Heide Kunzelmann and Lyn Marven

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Austrian Studies 29

Modern Humanities Research Association

24 December 2021

ISBN: 978-1-781889-72-5 (paperback)

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‘Uncanny valley’, the dip in credibility of life-like robots when they betray a lack of human response, is a recent coinage, but Sigmund Freud’s influential essay ‘The Uncanny’ goes back as far as 1919. The uncanny experience of feeling fundamentally unhomed, even on home ground, is a core quality of the modern human condition. However ephemeral — triggered perhaps by a glimpse of something strange in a familiar context, or vice versa — the uncanny moment can have a profound psychological impact, and writers and filmmakers have used this to great effect in exposing repressed fears, immoral histories or unpopular truths.

Austrian writers, filmmakers and visual artists after 1945 have been faced with just such unsavoury truths. In the post-war decades, the collective denial of responsibility for National Socialist crimes informed a cultural discourse polarized between the apologetic and the highly judgmental. Towards the turn of the new millennium, however, Austrian culture began to absorb a more integrative point of view — disturbing to either side, and uncanny to the core. Volume 29 of Austrian Studies explores the fiction and film occupying these uncanny valleys, and the contemporary sensibility of which they now form a part.

Volume 29 of Austrian Studies is edited by Heide Kunzelmann and Lyn Marven.

See news item: An Uncanny Launch (9 March 2022)
and: Welcome to Uncanny Valley (22 February 2022)

Contents:

1-4	Uncanny Valleys: An Introduction Heide Kunzelmann, Lyn Marven doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0001	Cite
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15-31	Making Sense. In and of Doron Rabinovici Caitríona Leahy doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0015	Cite
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32-46	Lenka Reinerová's Uncanny Encounter with Theresienstadt Florian Gassner doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0032	Cite
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47-67	The Uncanny in Paulus Hochgatterer's Crime Fiction Christoph Leitgeb doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0047	Cite
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68-85	Towards a Decolonial Uncanny: Reconfiguring the Ineffable in Anna Kim's ‘Greenland’ Novel Anatomie einer Nacht (2012) Teresa Ludden doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0068	Cite
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86-101	Austrian Heimat-Horror in Twenty-First-Century Film: Ich seh, ich seh (2014) Regina Range doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0086	Cite
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102-20	Uncanny Women and the Home in Contemporary Austrian Horror Film: Spitzendeckchen (2012), Ich seh, ich seh (2014) and HomeSick (2015) Maria Hofmann doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0102	Cite
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121-43	Unsettling Heimat and the Touristic Ideal: Tropes of the Uncanny in Lois Hechenblaikner's Anti-Heimat Photography Julia Secklehner doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0121	Cite
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144-60	Uncanny Europe: Derridean Hauntologies of History, Unity and Identity in Films by Nikolaus Geyrhalter Florian Lippert doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0144	Cite
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161-65	Obituary: W. E. (Gar) Yates 1938–2021 Ulrike Tanzer doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0161	Cite
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166-167	Review of Thomas Martinec, Rilkes Musikalität Rey Conquer doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0166	Cite
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167-169	Review of Silke Uertz-Jacquemain, Rotweißrotes Fleischtheater: Über die Komik in Werner Schwabs Dramen Marina Rauchenbacher doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0167	Cite
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169-171	Review of Rüdiger Görner, Franz Kafkas akustische Welten Syamala Roberts doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0169	Cite
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171-173	Review of Clemens Ruthner, Matthias Schmidt, Die Mutzenbacher: Lektüren und Kontexte eines Skandalromans Sigurd Paul Scheichl doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0171	Cite
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173-174	Review of Ernst Hanisch, Landschaft und Identität: Versuch einer österreichischen Erfahrungsgeschichte Rebecca Wismeg-Kammerlander doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0173	Cite
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175-179	Review of Vreni Amsler, Sophie Reyer, Sophie Reyer, Veza Canetti zwischen Leben und Werk: Netzwerk-Biografie; Sophie Reyer, Vezas Wege: Ein biographischer Roman Julian Preece doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0175	Cite
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179-180	Review of Michael D. Gordin, Einstein in Bohemia Andrew Barker doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0179	Cite
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181-182	Review of Stephen Johnson, The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910 Andrew Barker doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0181	Cite
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182-184	Review of Tim Mehigan, Robert Musil and the Question of Science: Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Problem of the Two Cultures Graham Bartram doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0182	Cite
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184-186	Review of Rob McFarland, Georg Spitaler, Ingo Zechner, The Red Vienna Sourcebook Judith Beniston doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0184	Cite
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186-188	Review of Gundolf Graml, Revisiting Austria: Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present Andrea Capovilla doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0186	Cite
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188-192	Review of Jens Malte Fischer, Ari Linden, Karl Kraus. Der Widersprecher. Biografie Gilbert J. Carr doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0188	Cite
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192-194	Review of Gerald Stourzh, Wolfgang Mueller, Der Kampf um den Staatsvertrag 1945–1955: Ost-West-Besetzung, Staatsvertrag und Neutralität Österreichs R. Knight doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0192	Cite
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195-196	Review of Megan Brandow-Faller, Laura Morowitz doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0195	Cite
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197-199	Review of Alys X. George, The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body Annja Neumann doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0197	Cite
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199-100	Review of Franz Leander Fillafer, Aufklärung habsburgisch: Staatsbildung, Wissenskultur und Geschichtspolitik in Zentraleuropa 1750‒1850 Ritchie Robertson doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0199	Cite
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201-202	Review of Matthias Eck, Masculinities in Austrian Contemporary Literature: Strategic Evasion Benjamin Schaper doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0201	Cite
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203-205	Review of Christin Pschichholz, The First World War as a Caesura? Demographic Concepts, Population Policy, and Genocide in the Late Ottoman, Russian, and Habsburg Spheres Matthew Stibbe doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0203	Cite
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205-207	Review of Robert Knight, Politik der Assimilation: Österreich und die Kärntner Slowenen nach der NS-Herrschaft Marija Wakounig doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0205	Cite
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208-12	Abstracts Heide Kunzelmann, Lyn Marven doi:10.5699/austrianstudies.29.2021.0208	Cite
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Uncanny ValleysAustrian Literature and Film in the New Millennium

Edited by Heide Kunzelmann and Lyn Marven

Uncanny Valleys
Austrian Literature and Film in the New Millennium