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Realizing the Witch - Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible (Hardcover)
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Realizing the Witch - Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible (Hardcover)
Series: Forms of Living
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Benjamin Christensen's Haxan (The Witch, 1922) stands as a singular
film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary
scientific analysis and powerfully staged historical scenes of
satanic initiation, confession under torture, possession, and
persecution, Haxan creatively blends spectacle and argument to
provoke a humanist re-evaluation of witchcraft in European history
as well as the contemporary treatment of female "hysterics" and the
mentally ill. In Realizing the Witch, Baxstrom and Meyers show how
Haxan opens a window onto wider debates in the 1920s regarding the
relationship of film to scientific evidence, the evolving study of
religion from historical and anthropological perspectives, and the
complex relations between popular culture, artistic expression, and
concepts in medicine and psychology. Haxan is a film that travels
along the winding path of art and science rather than between the
narrow division of "documentary" and "fiction." Baxstrom and Meyers
reveal how Christensen's attempt to tame the irrationality of "the
witch" risked validating the very "nonsense" that such an effort
sought to master and dispel. Haxan is a notorious, genre-bending,
excessive cinematic account of the witch in early modern Europe.
Realizing the Witch not only illustrates the underrated importance
of the film within the canons of classic cinema, it lays bare the
relation of the invisible to that which we cannot prove but
nevertheless "know" to be there.
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