The Witch and the Hysteric: The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan /

Benjamin Christensen's 1922 Swedish/Danish film Häxan (known under its English title as Witchcraft Through the Ages) has entranced, entertained, shocked, and puzzled audiences for nearly a century. The film mixes documentary with fantasy, history with theatrics, religion and science, the mediev...

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Hauptverfasser: Doty, Alexander (VerfasserIn), Ingham, Patricia Clare, 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Schriftenreihe:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Seasons of the witch
  • Maleficia and belief
  • Testimony troubles
  • Witch, past and future : the politics of retroactive diagnosis
  • Documenting the fantastic
  • Conclusion : medieval monsters don't let go.