Please review the Final Project Assignment, which can be found on Blackboard. Use this blog to post your preliminary topic proposal.
It should be a brief statement only, giving:
--The work, artist, or phenomenon you intend to investigate further.
--Your considered but still preliminary ideas for how this topic represents a significant and suggestive instance of the uncanny in the arts. For example: Your first ideas on how and why this work inspires the uncanny effect in the receiver; or how the work exemplifies an extant theory of the uncanny; or how the work represents the uncanny in a surprising medium or context; or how an artist's work demonstrates a consistent and illuminating attraction to some subject in the Uncanny.
A great approach would be to demonstrate that some application of a theory of the Uncanny allows us to see the work from a new and helpful perspective.
If you have more than one idea, share more than one. If you haven't developed a topic yet:
Aside from the artists and exhibitions that appear in the links in the sidebar of this blog, you might consider some of the literary works and films that are listed on the course bibliography. I'd be particularly interested in speaking with anyone interested in presenting on:
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Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
God Told Me To (Larry Cohen, 1977)
Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002)
Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
The Twilight Zone: The Complete
Definitive Collection (Image, 2006)
Twin Peaks: The Definitive
Complete Series (Paramount,
2007)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
At our next two sessions, we will try to refine project topics, and we'll meet in small groups the week of November 4 to finalize proposals.
You can post your brief proposal as a comment to this post. If you'd like to share images or video, please post it as a separate blog post including the image.
