02927oam 22005174a 450 991013716510332120210915045941.0(CKB)3710000000534152(WaSeSS)IndRDA00059320(OCoLC)1178720840(MdBmJHUP)muse87150(EXLCZ)99371000000053415220200724d2014 uy 0engurm|#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Witch and the Hysteric: The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's HäxanAlexander Doty and Patricia Claire InghamBaltimore, Maryland :Project Muse,2020©20201 online resource (68 pages) illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)0-692-23015-7 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.Civilization, MedievalPsychological aspectsHysteria in motion picturesMotion picturesDenmarkWitchcraftEuropeHistoryWitches in motion picturesElectronic books. Civilization, MedievalPsychological aspects.Hysteria in motion pictures.Motion picturesWitchcraftHistory.Witches in motion pictures.133.43094Doty Alexander862410Ingham Patricia Clare1958-MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910137165103321The Witch and the Hysteric: The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan1925121UNINA