The Witch and the Hysteric: The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan / Alexander Doty and Patricia Claire Ingham.
Benjamin Christensen's 1922 Swedish/Danish film Häxan (known under its English title as Witchcraft Through the Ages) has entranced, entertained, shocked, and puzzled audiences for nearly a century. The film mixes documentary with fantasy, history with theatrics, religion and science, the medie...
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Doty, Alexander, author. The Witch and the Hysteric: The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan Alexander Doty and Patricia Claire Ingham. Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2014 Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020 ©2020 1 online resource (68 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file rda Also available in print form. Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-68). Seasons of the witch -- Maleficia and belief -- Testimony troubles -- Witch, past and future : the politics of retroactive diagnosis -- Documenting the fantastic -- Conclusion : medieval monsters don't let go. Benjamin Christensen's 1922 Swedish/Danish film Häxan (known under its English title as Witchcraft Through the Ages) has entranced, entertained, shocked, and puzzled audiences for nearly a century. The film mixes documentary with fantasy, history with theatrics, religion and science, the medieval past and modern culture. This uncanny content is compounded by the film's formal strangeness, a mixture of quasi-documentary with fictional episodes, illustrated lectures alongside docudrama recreations and dreamscapes. Is this a documentary, a horror flick, or both? In this chapbook, authors Doty and Ingham argue that the puzzle of Christensen's Häxan might be unraveled by attending to the film's provocative and paradoxical medievalism, its fantasmatic rendering of the witch as a medieval monster. Such monstrous medievalism, moreover, sheds considerable light on the politics of gender and culture once the witch is rendered a female figure in a time-out-of-joint. Description based on print version record. English Civilization, Medieval Psychological aspects. Hysteria in motion pictures. Motion pictures Denmark. Witchcraft Europe History. Witches in motion pictures. Häxan (Motion picture) Christensen, Benjamin, 1879-1959 Criticism and interpretation. Electronic books. film medieval studies horror cultural studies witchcraft 0-692-23015-7 Ingham, Patricia Clare, 1958- author. |
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Seasons of the witch -- Maleficia and belief -- Testimony troubles -- Witch, past and future : the politics of retroactive diagnosis -- Documenting the fantastic -- Conclusion : medieval monsters don't let go. |
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