LEADER 02927oam 22005174a 450 001 9910137165103321 005 20210915045941.0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000534152 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00059320 035 $a(OCoLC)1178720840 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87150 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000534152 100 $a20200724d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Witch and the Hysteric: The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan$fAlexander Doty and Patricia Claire Ingham 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2020 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (68 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 $a0-692-23015-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 63-68). 327 $aSeasons 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. 330 $aBenjamin Christensen's 1922 Swedish/Danish film Ha?xan (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 Ha?xan 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. 606 $aCivilization, Medieval$xPsychological aspects 606 $aHysteria in motion pictures 606 $aMotion pictures$zDenmark 606 $aWitchcraft$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aWitches in motion pictures 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCivilization, Medieval$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aHysteria in motion pictures. 615 0$aMotion pictures 615 0$aWitchcraft$xHistory. 615 0$aWitches in motion pictures. 676 $a133.43094 700 $aDoty$b Alexander$0862410 702 $aIngham$b Patricia Clare$f1958- 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910137165103321 996 $aThe Witch and the Hysteric: The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan$91925121 997 $aUNINA