TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baxstrom,Richard
AU  - Meyers,Todd
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible 
T2  - Forms of living
SN  - 9780823268283
AV  - BF1584.E85 B39 2015
U1  - 133.4/309 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Christensen, Benjamin,
KW  - Häxan (Motion picture)
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
KW  - Witches
KW  - Europe
KW  - Witchcraft
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes filmography; Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note:  Introduction: 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
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42133/
ER  -