Realizing the Witch : Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible /
"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 blends specta...
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| Formaat: | Elektronisch E-boek |
| Taal: | Engels |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2016.
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| Reeks: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Inhoudsopgave:
- 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.