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

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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Knowledge Unlatched (-)
Other Authors: Baxstrom, Richard, Author (author), Meyers, Todd, Contributor (contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Fordham University Press 2016.
Series:Forms of living Realizing the witch
Subjects:
Christensen, Benjamin, > 1879-1959.
Häxan (Motion picture)
Witchcraft > History > Europe
Witches > Europe
Social Sciences
Parapsychology & Occult Sciences
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423734606719
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
  • 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.

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