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050 4 _aPN1997.H39
_bD68 2014
082 0 _a133.43094
_223
100 1 _aDoty, Alexander,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Witch and the Hysteric: The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan /
_cAlexander Doty and Patricia Claire Ingham.
264 1 _aBaltimore, Maryland :
_bProject Muse,
_c2020
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2020
264 4 _c©2020
300 _a1 online resource (84 pages).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 63-68).
505 0 _aSeasons 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.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aBenjamin 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 medieval past and modern culture. This uncanny content is compounded by the film's formal strangeness, a mixture of quasi-documentary with fictional episodes, illustrated lectures alongside docudrama recreations and dreamscapes. Is this a documentary, a horror flick, or both? In this chapbook, authors Doty and Ingham argue that the puzzle of Christensen's Häxan might be unraveled by attending to the film's provocative and paradoxical medievalism, its fantasmatic rendering of the witch as a medieval monster. Such monstrous medievalism, moreover, sheds considerable light on the politics of gender and culture once the witch is rendered a female figure in a time-out-of-joint.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
600 1 0 _aChristensen, Benjamin,
_d1879-1959
_xCriticism and interpretation.
630 0 0 _aHäxan (Motion picture)
650 0 _aCivilization, Medieval
_xPsychological aspects.
650 0 _aHysteria in motion pictures.
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_zDenmark.
650 0 _aWitchcraft
_zEurope
_xHistory.
650 0 _aWitches in motion pictures.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aIngham, Patricia Clare,
_d1958-
_eauthor.
710 2 _aProject Muse,
_edistributor.
776 1 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780692230152
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/76467/
999 _c234268
_d234267