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The Witch and the Hysteric : the monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan / Alexander Doty and Patricia Claire Ingham.
- Title
- The Witch and the Hysteric : the monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen's Häxan / Alexander Doty and Patricia Claire Ingham.
- Author
- Doty, Alexander
- Publication
- Brooklyn, New York : Punctum Books, 2014.
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- Description
- [vii unnumbered preliminary] pages, 68 pages; 21 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Note
- 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. 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.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-68).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780692230152
- 0692230157
- OCLC
- 935900071
- SCSB-12690564
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library