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Realizing the Witch (Record no. 24611)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION
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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
Canceled/invalid LC control number 2015008857
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780823268276
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Canceled/invalid ISBN 9780823268245 (hardback)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Canceled/invalid ISBN 9780823268252 (paper)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)922451652
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency MdBmJHUP
Transcribing agency MdBmJHUP
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Geographic area code e------
050 04 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BF1584.E85
Item number B39 2015
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 133.4/309
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Baxstrom, Richard.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Realizing the Witch
Remainder of title Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Richard Baxstrom, Todd Meyers.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Fordham University Press,
264 #3 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Project MUSE,
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource (pages cm.)
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Forms of living
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes filmography.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE
Terms governing access Open Access
Standardized terminology for access restriction Unrestricted online access
Source of term star
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "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"--
Assigning source Provided by publisher.
588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE
Source of description note Description based on print version record.
630 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Häxan (Motion picture)
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
Source of heading or term bisacsh
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology.
Source of heading or term bisacsh
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General.
Source of heading or term bisacsh
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Witches
Geographic subdivision Europe.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Witchcraft
Geographic subdivision Europe
General subdivision History.
600 11 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Christensen, Benjamin,
Dates associated with a name 1879-1959.
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
Source of term local
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Meyers, Todd.
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Project Muse.
Relator term distributor
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Book collections on Project MUSE.
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Public note Full text available:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42133/">https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42133/</a>
945 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
a Project MUSE - 2016 Film, Theater and Performing Arts
945 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
a Project MUSE - 2016 Complete
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Date last seen Uniform Resource Identifier Price effective from Koha item type
          Digital Library Digital Library Online Access 27.01.2021   BF1584.E85 B39 2015 27.01.2021 https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42133/ 27.01.2021 eBook

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