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dc.contributor.authorBaxstrom, Richard
dc.contributor.authorMeyers, Todd
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-18 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-19 13:55:47
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T12:44:42Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T12:44:42Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier650022
dc.identifierOCN: 1076725786en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30078
dc.description.abstractBenjamin 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 female “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.”
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH Historyen_US
dc.subject.otherMedia & Communications
dc.subject.otherHäxan
dc.subject.otherSatan
dc.subject.otherWitchcraft
dc.titleRealizing the Witch
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/oapen_605860
oapen.relation.isPublishedByf501c751-7a51-484b-b90a-ed0912c4e53f
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780823274871
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.place.publicationNY
oapen.grant.number103472
oapen.grant.programKU Round 2
oapen.redirect605860
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Häxan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4xan; Satan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan; Witchcraft - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft
oapen.identifier.isbn9780823274871
grantor.number103472
oapen.identifier.ocn1076725786


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