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1 online resource (1 electronic resource (84 pages)) |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
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. |
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English. |
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Christensen, Benjamin, 1879-1959 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Häxan (Motion picture)
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Christensen, Benjamin, 1879-1959. (OCoLC)fst00471328
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Witchcraft -- Europe -- History.
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Witches in motion pictures.
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Film theory & criticism.
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Witchcraft. (OCoLC)fst01176327
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Witches in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01176350
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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| Indexed Term |
documentary, Film Studies, cultural studies, studies in medievalism, witchcraft, monster studies, Swedish cinema, Danish cinema, horror, popular culture, silent film |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Alexander Doty, author.
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| Added Title |
Directory of open access books.
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| In: |
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). OAPEN |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Doty, Alexander. Witch and the hysteric : the monstrous medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan. Brooklyn, New York : Punctum Books, 2014 9780692230152 |
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