Realizing the witch : science, cinema, and the mastery of the invisible

Realizing the witch : science, cinema, and the mastery of the invisible / Richard Baxstrom, Todd Meyers.

"Benjamin Christensen's Häxan (The Witch, 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary scientific analysis and powerfully staged historical scenes of satanic initiation, confession under torture, possession, and persecution, Häxan creatively b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baxstrom, Richard
Other Authors: Meyers, Todd
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Series:Forms of living.
Subjects:
Christensen, Benjamin, > 1879-1959.
Christensen, Benjamin, > 1879-1959
Häxan (Motion picture)
Witchcraft > Europe > History.
Witches > Europe.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Witchcraft
Witches
Europe
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What Is Häxan?
  • Part I: The realization of the witch: the witch in the human sciences and the mastery of nonsense
  • Evidence, first movement: words and things
  • Evidence, second movement: tableaux and faces
  • The viral character of the witch
  • Demonology
  • Part II: A mobile force in the modern age: 1922
  • Sex, touch, and materiality
  • Possession and ecstasy
  • Hysterias
  • Postscript: it is very hard to believe.

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