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.

"The exciting array of 'uncanny' histories gathered in this collection trouble familiar narratives in film and media studies. Centering marginalized spaces, figures, and texts, these essays show us how much of media history remains to be written."— Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood and Movie Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture aft"With consummate mastery, Petro has collected provocative and inspirational contributions to a range of subfields in media studies—colonialism and its aftermath, game studies, race and representation, transnationalism, global markets, and the trajectory of feminism."— Mary Ann Doane, author of The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Uncanny HistoriesPart I: The Disciplinary UncannyChapter 1: Film and Media in the Double Take of HistoryChapter 2: Haunted by the Body: Cleanliness in Colonial Manila's Film CultureChapter 3: Reimagining the History of Media Studies through Games, Play, and the Uncanny ValleyPart II: Uncanny FilmsChapter 4: Flickering Lights and Mischievous Stars: The Uncanny Feminism of My Twentieth CenturyChapter 5: The Sublime Body under the Sign of Developmentalism: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Malaysian Politics and Global MarketsChapter 6: Uncanny Histories of Transnational Cinematic Receptions: Eisenstein in CubaPart III: Uncanny FiguresChapter 7: Julio García Espinosa and the Fight for a Critical Culture in CubaChapter 8: The Case for (Re)collecting Lotte Eisner's WorkChapter 9: A Widow's Work: Archives and the Construction of Russian Film HistoryChapter 10: Fiendish Devices: The Uncanny History of Almena DavisNotes on contributorsIndex

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.

"The exciting array of 'uncanny' histories gathered in this collection trouble familiar narratives in film and media studies. Centering marginalized spaces, figures, and texts, these essays show us how much of media history remains to be written."— Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood and Movie Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture aft"With consummate mastery, Petro has collected provocative and inspirational contributions to a range of subfields in media studies—colonialism and its aftermath, game studies, race and representation, transnationalism, global markets, and the trajectory of feminism."— Mary Ann Doane, author of The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Uncanny HistoriesPart I: The Disciplinary UncannyChapter 1: Film and Media in the Double Take of HistoryChapter 2: Haunted by the Body: Cleanliness in Colonial Manila's Film CultureChapter 3: Reimagining the History of Media Studies through Games, Play, and the Uncanny ValleyPart II: Uncanny FilmsChapter 4: Flickering Lights and Mischievous Stars: The Uncanny Feminism of My Twentieth CenturyChapter 5: The Sublime Body under the Sign of Developmentalism: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Malaysian Politics and Global MarketsChapter 6: Uncanny Histories of Transnational Cinematic Receptions: Eisenstein in CubaPart III: Uncanny FiguresChapter 7: Julio García Espinosa and the Fight for a Critical Culture in CubaChapter 8: The Case for (Re)collecting Lotte Eisner's WorkChapter 9: A Widow's Work: Archives and the Construction of Russian Film HistoryChapter 10: Fiendish Devices: The Uncanny History of Almena DavisNotes on contributorsIndex

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.

"The exciting array of 'uncanny' histories gathered in this collection trouble familiar narratives in film and media studies. Centering marginalized spaces, figures, and texts, these essays show us how much of media history remains to be written."— Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood and Movie Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture aft"With consummate mastery, Petro has collected provocative and inspirational contributions to a range of subfields in media studies—colonialism and its aftermath, game studies, race and representation, transnationalism, global markets, and the trajectory of feminism."— Mary Ann Doane, author of The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Uncanny HistoriesPart I: The Disciplinary UncannyChapter 1: Film and Media in the Double Take of HistoryChapter 2: Haunted by the Body: Cleanliness in Colonial Manila's Film CultureChapter 3: Reimagining the History of Media Studies through Games, Play, and the Uncanny ValleyPart II: Uncanny FilmsChapter 4: Flickering Lights and Mischievous Stars: The Uncanny Feminism of My Twentieth CenturyChapter 5: The Sublime Body under the Sign of Developmentalism: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Malaysian Politics and Global MarketsChapter 6: Uncanny Histories of Transnational Cinematic Receptions: Eisenstein in CubaPart III: Uncanny FiguresChapter 7: Julio García Espinosa and the Fight for a Critical Culture in CubaChapter 8: The Case for (Re)collecting Lotte Eisner's WorkChapter 9: A Widow's Work: Archives and the Construction of Russian Film HistoryChapter 10: Fiendish Devices: The Uncanny History of Almena DavisNotes on contributorsIndex