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 ble...

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Autor Principal: Baxstrom, Richard
Outros autores: Meyers, Todd
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.