"Each work is connected through aesthetics of the uncanny, imbued with tension between familiarity and unfamiliarity," Ludy continues.
The commentators — the riders themselves, historians, politicians, civil rights leaders — have mostly been chosen for an uncanny ability to convey the tension in a present-tense reconstruction.
Banville is not an easy writer, although Shroud certainly demonstrates his ability to generate extreme tension and utterly uncanny atmospheres; it also situates him firmly within a great European tradition.
Later, as the action moves to the Divis flats (Sheffield's Park Hill estate doubling for Belfast, along with Blackburn and Liverpool), Demange uses Holmes's eerie score (to which he listened on set) to generate both growing tension and weirdly uncanny unease.
But Muhly has found his own musical language, a lyricism underpinned by subtle tension, and it achieves uncanny alignment with the lights and shadows of Cavafy's poetry.
Key to the psychoanalyst's description of the double is the simultaneous sense of something foreign yet familiar; the underlying feeling of the uncanny gets its power from the tension produced by dawning awareness of a long-buried truth.
The simplicity of Partch's method — sending words into the listener's brain along all musical channels — creates hair-raising tension, an aria of the uncanny.
His harmonies, restless and forever migrating toward a new tonal center, moved between tension and resolution in an uncanny way that constantly propelled the listener forward.
His dialogue flows with uncanny surprise, catching in its resonance all the psychosexual tension in the alchemy of desire.
Here, in the paranoia and frustration between a Vietnam vet and his young wife, married on leave from the front, Williams's dialogue flowed with uncanny surprise, catching in its resonance all the psychosexual tension in the alchemy of desire.
