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008			150312s2015 nyu o 00 0 eng d
010			_z 2015008857
020			_a9780823268276
020			_z9780823268245 (hardback)
020			_z9780823268252 (paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)922451652
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
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050	0	4	_aBF1584.E85 _bB39 2015
082	0		_a133.4/309 _223
100	1		_aBaxstrom, Richard.
245	1	0	_aRealizing the Witch _bScience, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible / _cRichard Baxstrom, Todd Meyers.
264		1	_bFordham University Press,
264		3	_bProject MUSE,
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm.)
490	0		_aForms of living
504			_aIncludes filmography.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aMachine 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		_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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
630	0	0	_aHäxan (Motion picture)
650		0	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aPERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aWitches _zEurope.
650		0	_aWitchcraft _zEurope _xHistory.
600	1	1	_aChristensen, Benjamin, _d1879-1959.
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 Film, Theater and Performing Arts
945			_aProject MUSE - 2016 Complete
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