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 spectac...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fordham University Press
2016.
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| Colección: | Forms of living Realizing the witch
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423734606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: what is Häxan?
- part I. The realization of the witch
- The witch in the human sciences and the mastery of nonsense
- 1. Evidence, First movement: words and things
- 2. Evidence, second movement: tableaux and faces
- 3. The viral character of the witch
- 4. Demonology
- Part II. A mobile force in the modern age
- 1922
- 5. Sex, touch, and materiality
- 6. Possession and ecstasy
- 7. Hysterias
- Postscript: It is very hard to believe . . .
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Benjamin Christensen's cited source material
- Contents
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index.
