Uncanny Valley Adventures in the Narrative

by Weschler, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9781619020511
• ISBN10: 1619020513
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-25
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

Shutting between cultural comedies and political tragedies, Lawrence Weschler's articles have intrigued readers throughout his long career. He examines everything, from the ordinary to the extraordinary, and his insights are illuminating.

Author Biography

Lawrence Weschler is regarded as one of the leading practitioners of literary nonfiction. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker for over twenty years, and his series of "Convergences" is a regular feature in McSweeney's Quarterly. The recepient of a Lannan Literary Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, he currently teaches at New York University.

Table of Contents

Uncanny Valley: On the Digital Animation of the Face	p. 1
Four Easy Pieces
On Coming Face-to-Face with Myself	p. 21
Torqued Brueghel	p. 24
Motes in the Light	p. 27
The Judd Ant	p. 29
Three Improbable Yarns
Mr. Wilson in Belgrade	p. 33
The Poem on the Train: A Letter to the Editor of The Threepenny Review	p. 39
Popocatepetl (My Grandfather's Geographical and My Medical Fugue)	p. 42
Some Probes into the Terrain of Human Rights
Sentries (with Richard Avedon)	p. 49
Swallowed Up in Rwanda	p. 55
Exceptional Cases in Rome: The United States and the International Criminal Court	p. 66
Gazing Back: The Disappeared	p. 107
A Berlin Epiphany	p. 115
Four Walkabouts
Waking Up to How We Sleepwalk	p. 125
Dario Fo on Broadway	p. 133
Tomislav Gotovac: Naked in Zagreb	p. 139
Sharon Lockhart: The No Film	p. 142
Five Further Adventures in the Narrative
Splendors of Decaying Celluloid: On Bill Morrison's Decasia	p. 147
Still Not Finished: On Vincent Desiderio's Sleep	p. 163
Valkyries over Iraq: Walter Murch, Apocalypse Now, Jarhead, and the Trouble with War Movies	p. 181
Double Vision: The Perspectival Journey of the Oakes Twins	p. 219
Blockage and Grace: Mark Salzman Lying Awake	p. 256
Afterword: On Grace and Narrative and the Current State of the Uncanny valley	p. 273
Notes	p. 279
Sources and Image Credits	p. 297
Acknowledgments	p. 303
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