Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible, Richard Baxstrom, Todd Meyers

Автор: Baxstrom, Richard Meyers, Todd
Название: Realizing the witch
ISBN: 0823268241 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823268245
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Benjamin Christensen’s H?xan (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, H?xan 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 H?xan 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. H?xan 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. H?xan 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.

Автор: Baxstrom Richard, Meyers Todd
Название: Violence`s Fabled Experiment: Kleine Edition 27
ISBN: 3941360574 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783941360570
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Описание: Here, Baxstrom and Meyers examine how violence and an unmarked, stubbornly persistent conception of "nature" weave into the fabric of the human in the recent work of three important filmmakers: Werner Herzog, Joshua Oppenheimer (particularly The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence) and Lucien Castaing-Taylor.