Article:
The uncanny mediality of the photographic GIF

dc.creatorFetveit, Arild
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-08T13:25:06Z
dc.date.available2019-01-08T13:25:06Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis article examines uncanny mediality in photographic GIFs by interrogating sources of this uncanniness and the logic informing its operation in particular examples. From a phenomenological analysis of an instructive GIF that loops a six-second recording of the artist Prince, the article goes on to examine the confluence between features prone to generate the uncanny and features characterising the photographic GIF as a medium. This examination involves a probing of how the uncanny is theorised in seminal contributions by Ernst Jentsch and Sigmund Freud. It also involves probing uncanny potentials in photographic mediality by means of examining the history of photographic theory. Drawing on these theoretical and historical resources the article probes further examples, among them a cinemagraph, in a comparative analysis of how uncanny mediality may operate in GIFs.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/3439
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/the-uncanny-mediality-of-the-photographic-gif/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4208
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectMedienästhetikde
dc.subjectFotografiede
dc.subjectDas Unheimlichede
dc.subjectcinemagraphen
dc.subjectGIFen
dc.subjectmedia aestheticsen
dc.subjectphotographyen
dc.subjectuncannyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personRoland Barthes
dc.titleThe uncanny mediality of the photographic GIFen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationFetveit, Arild (2018): The uncanny mediality of the photographic GIF. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 7 (1), 45–65. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3439.
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2020-11-22T11:04:13
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/the-uncanny-mediality-of-the-photographic-gif/
local.source.epage65
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage45
local.source.volume7
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118506862
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179109

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