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Realizing the Witch
Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan (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, Häxan creatively blends spectacle and argument to provoke a humanist re-evaluation of witchcraft in European history as well as the…
Creator
- Baxstrom, Richard
- Meyers, Todd
Publisher
- Fordham University Press
Subject
- Humanities::History
- Media and Communications
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
- Witchcraft Europe History
- Witches Europe
Type of item
- Text
Date
- 2016
- 2016
Medium
- application/pdf
Creator
- Baxstrom, Richard
- Meyers, Todd
Publisher
- Fordham University Press
Subject
- Humanities::History
- Media and Communications
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
- Witchcraft Europe History
- Witches Europe
Type of item
- Text
Date
- 2016
- 2016
Medium
- application/pdf
Providing institution
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier
- urn:isbn:9780823274871
Language
- eng
Year
- 2016
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-08-19T14:44:12.436Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-02-22T10:54:45.765Z