Notes
1
Mark Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie (Repeater Books, 2016), 20. Thanks to Elvia Wilk for drawing my attention to this text, which helped clarify some key terms and concepts.
2
Fisher, The Weird and the Eerie, 13.
3
Tarkovsky’s film is loosely based on the Strugatsky brothers’ 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. Even though film and prose fiction are such distinct forms, I discuss the film rather than the novel because Stalker shares with my other examples a concentrated focus on a single intrusion (whereas Roadside Picnic features half a dozen, and unfolds in several different locations across the globe).
4
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (Pocket Books, 1977), 448.
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