Realizing the witch : science, cinema, and the mastery of the invisible / [electronic resource]

• 作者： Baxstrom, Richard.
• 其他作者：
  • Meyers, Todd.
• 其他題名：
  • Forms of living.
• 出版： New York : Fordham University Press
• 叢書名： Forms of living
• 主題： Christensen, Benjamin, 1879-1959. , Witchcraft--Europe--History. , Witches--Europe. , SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural. , SOCIAL SCIENCE--Folklore & Mythology. , Haxan (Motion picture) , Electronic books. , Electronic books.
• ISBN： 9780823268283 (electronic bk.) 、 0823268284 (electronic bk.) 、 9780823274871 、 082327487X 、 9780823268276 、 0823268276
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography. Introduction: What Is Haxan? -- 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.
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• 摘要註: "Benjamin Christensen's Haxan (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, Haxan creatively blends spectacle and argument to provoke a humanist re-evaluation of witchcraft in European history as well as the contemporary treatment of "hysterics" and the mentally ill. In Realizing the Witch, Baxstrom and Meyers show how Haxan opens a window onto wider debates in the 1920s regarding the relationship of film to scientific evidence, the evolving study of religion from historical and anthropological perspectives, and the complex relations between popular culture, artistic expression, and concepts in medicine and psychology. Haxan is a film that travels along the winding path of art and science rather than between the narrow division of "documentary" and "fiction". Baxstrom and Meyers reveal how Christensen's attempt to tame the irrationality of "the witch" risked validating the very "nonsense" that such an effort sought to master and dispel. Haxan is a notorious, genre-bending, excessive cinematic account of the witch in early modern Europe--Realizing the Witch not only illustrates the underrated importance of the film within the canons of classic cinema, it lays bare the relation of the invisible to that which we cannot prove but nevertheless "know" to be there"--
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