Realizing the Witch
Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible
Benjamin ChristensenGCOs H+nxan (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, H+nxan creatively blends spectacle and argument to provoke a humanist re-evaluation of witchcraft in European history as well as the contemporary treatment of female GhystericsG and the mentally ill. In Realizing the Witch, Baxstrom and Meyers show how H+xan opens a window onto wider debates in the 1920s regarding the relationship of film to scientific evidence, the evolving…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8232-6826-9
- EAN: 9780823268269
- Produktnummer: 22572200
- Verlag: Fordham University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'201 KB
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