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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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2020 ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (68 pages) :; illustrations; PDF, digital file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.