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008			150928s2016 nyu o 00 0 eng d
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035			_a(OCoLC)922451652
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
100	1		_aBaxstrom, Richard.
245	1	0	_aRealizing the Witch : _bScience, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible / _cRichard Baxstrom, Todd Meyers.
264		1	_aNew York : _bFordham University Press, _c2016.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2016
264		4	_c©2016.
300			_a1 online resource (296 pages): _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aForms of living
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_a"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 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 Häxan 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. Häxan 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. Häxan 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"-- _cProvided by publisher
546			_aEnglish.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
630	0	0	_aHäxan (Motion picture)
600	1	7	_aChristensen, Benjamin, _d1879-1959. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00471328
600	1	0	_aChristensen, Benjamin, _d1879-1959.
650		7	_aWitches. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01176346
650		7	_aWitchcraft. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01176327
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE _xFolklore & Mythology. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE _xAnthropology _xCultural. _2bisacsh
650		6	_aSorcieres _zEurope.
650		6	_aSorcellerie _zEurope _xHistoire.
650		0	_aWitches _zEurope.
650		0	_aWitchcraft _zEurope _xHistory.
651		7	_aEurope. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01245064
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
700	1		_aMeyers, Todd.
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/42133/
945			_aProject MUSE - 2016 Complete
945			_aProject MUSE - 2016 Film, Theater and Performing Arts
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