{"id":813,"date":"2008-01-24T13:31:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T11:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/Geschichte\/salon21\/?p=813"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T16:21:55","slug":"laura-mulvey-rereading-the-uncanny-automata-the-cinema-and-hitchcocks-female-stars-240108-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Vortrag Laura Mulvey: &#8222;Rereading the Uncanny: Automata, the Cinema and Hitchcock&#8217;s Female Stars&#8220;, 24.01.08, Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung<\/strong><br \/>\nZeit: Donnerstag, 24. J\u00e4nner , 18.30 Uhr<br \/>\nOrt: \u00d6sterreichisches Filmmuseum, Augustinerstra\u00dfe 1, 1010 Wien<br \/>\nBegr\u00fc\u00dfung: Alexander Horwath (Direktor \u00d6sterreichisches Filmmuseum) und Dr.in Lydia Marinelli (Leitung Wissenschaft, Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung)<br \/>\nAbstract: &#8222;In this paper I would like to return to Freud&#8217;s essay &#8218;The Uncanny&#8216; from a rather different perspective to my previous use of the concept. I would like to consider the debate between Freud and Jentsch about the significance of the beautiful automaton Olympia in E.T.A. Hoffman&#8217;s story &#8218;The Sandman&#8216; and use both their approaches for an analysis of some of Hitchcock&#8217;s later films.<br \/>\nConcentrating on his beautiful but deceptive heroines, particularly &#8218;Notorious&#8216; (1946), &#8218;Vertigo&#8216; (1959), &#8218;Marnie&#8216; (1964) <!--more-->but also with reference to other relevant films, I want to reflect on the female star performances in these key films: the way that masquerade (in the story)  heightens their characteristically highly stylised appearance of Hitchcock&#8217;s female stars which, in turn, draws attention to the pre-existing stylization typical of Hollywood star performance.<br \/>\nWhile the appearance and performance of the stars evokes Jentsch&#8217;s interest in automata and the blurred boundary between the animate and the inanimate, the Hitchcock&#8217;s recurring hints at castration anxiety, accompanied by the actual presence of the maternal body evokes Freud&#8217;s assertion that the uncanny effect is only aroused by something ancient, that is, the return of the repressed.<br \/>\nI would like to see if a reconciliation between their views might be achieved through this consideration of Hitchcock&#8217;s heroines while also  reflecting on the significance of the beautiful automaton for an understanding of the cinema itself.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung Zeit: Donnerstag, 24. J\u00e4nner , 18.30 Uhr Ort: \u00d6sterreichisches Filmmuseum, Augustinerstra\u00dfe 1, 1010 Wien Begr\u00fc\u00dfung: Alexander Horwath (Direktor \u00d6sterreichisches Filmmuseum) und Dr.in Lydia Marinelli (Leitung Wissenschaft, Sigmund Freud Privatstiftung) Abstract: &#8222;In this paper I would like to return to Freud&#8217;s essay &#8218;The Uncanny&#8216; from a rather different perspective to my previous use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62856,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/62856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}