Realizing the witch : science, cinema, and the mastery of the invisible / / Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers

• Autore: Baxstrom Richard
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 133.4309
• Soggetto topico: Witchcraft - Witchcraft - History; Witches - Europe
• Persona (resp. second.): MeyersTodd
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Introduction: What Is Häxan?; Part I. The Realization of the Witch; The Witch in the Human Sciences and the Mastery of Nonsense; 1. Evidence, First Movement: Words and Things; 2. Evidence, Second Movement: Tableaux and Faces; 3. The Viral Character of the Witch; 4. Demonology; Part II. A Mobile Force in the Modern Age; 1922; 5. Sex, Touch, and Materiality; 6. Possession and Ecstasy; 7. Hysterias; Postscript: It Is Very Hard to Believe . . .; Acknowledgments; Notes; Benjamin Christensen's Cited Source Material; Filmography; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K ; LM; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Realizing the Witch follows the unfolding of Benjamin Christensen's visual narrative in his 1922 film, Häxan (The Witch). Through a close reading of Häxan, Baxstrom and Meyers examine the study of witchcraft from historical and anthropological perspectives, as well as the intersection of popular culture, artistic expression and scientific ideas.
• Titolo autorizzato: Realizing the witch
• ISBN: 0-8232-6827-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996478971503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Forms of living.