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标题：The ‘Uncanny Valley’ and Spectating Animated Objects
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作者：James R. Hamilton
期刊名称：Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics
电子版ISSN：1664-5278
出版年度：2014
卷号：6
页码：190-207
出版社：European Society for Aesthetics
摘要：The thing that strikes most thinkers about puppets and other animated objects in theatre is that they can seem genuinely ‘uncanny’. So, instead of thinking first about how spectators grasp what is going on in any performance and fitting the exceptional experience of the uncanny within that larger story, most theorists I know about have begun first with an account of the uncanny nature of puppets—or of something that would readily explain it—and only then worked out a general theory of spectating puppets and animated objects based on their preferred account of the exception. Although it might seem natural to begin with what is most striking, given the ubiquity and prominence of that uncanny feeling, in my view that approach is exactly backwards. In this paper I show why that is so and suggest some lines of research that might help to redress the situation.