I wanted a final text to bring things back to some of what the students might already know, things that were familiar to them, yet might now, because of the journey of the term, be, I hoped, defamiliarized or complicated in new ways. ❋ Unknown (2010)
De Selby is the subject of hilariously digressive academic footnotes (shades of Pale Fire, you would say, but for the fact that Nabokov had not yet written it); the main text is primarily concerned with the adventures of our antihero who, wandering through a weirdly defamiliarized rural district, comes to be detained by a pair of cheerfully batty policemen. ❋ Joseph O'Neil (2008)
Hasn't he rather cleverly defamiliarized our assumptions about live action versions of the classic batman cartoon? ❋ Ed Howard (2008)
He takes a bit of reality and fiddles with it until it is almost wholly defamiliarized and gives one pause. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Not Quite How I Remember It "unexpectedly managed to complicate realist documentary through formal disruptions that defamiliarized the past in order to reframe the present," writes Devika Singh views recent video and photography by 25 Indian artists collected in Still Moving Image. ❋ Unknown (2009)
By virtue of Kasper's skewed commentary this apparently banal image of an apple skimming down a garden path is suddenly defamiliarized. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Disorienting in content yet steady in its formalism, Martel's hypnotic third feature follows Veronica (an astounding performance from Maria Onetto), a woman who finds herself defamiliarized with her surroundings when she accidentally hits a dog with her car ... or was it a young boy? ❋ Unknown (2009)
If either the Disney or the Final Fantasy kept you from liking any of the other Kingdom Hearts games, you might be pleased to know that the demo of Birth by Sleep didn't seem to have anything immediately Disney or Final Fantasy in it, aside from, eventually, a defamiliarized Magic Kingdom looming on the horizon.
❋ Unknown (2008)
His compositions range from the portrait-like to the decoratively defamiliarized, from images with a snapshot quality to soberly realistic portrayals. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Both visually and narratively, the filmmaker has defamiliarized his country's major cinematic export, restraining romantic outbursts of swordplay that typified the martial-arts genre and would later signal the work of revisionists like Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The performers were superb, the place was perfect I felt as if I was uncannily listening to something written for me and me alone, it was so exactly what I love--Nico's music has this Benjamin Britten-esque thing that I adore, the phrase "popular music" has quite different connotations but you really feel that the best name for what he writes would be a defamiliarized version of popular music, it is so accessible and appealing and yet distinctly his own & not at all what anyone else would have written--and in a library of all places! ❋ Jenny Davidson (2005)
Although arguably influenced by the work of Robert Altman (M*A*S*H* but also McCABE AND MRS. MILLER), its more distant precursor would seem to be Anthony Mann’s MAN OF THE WEST (1958), a defamiliarized Western landscape populated not by character “types” but by eccentrics, lunatics, and religious zealots. ❋ Unknown (2007)
