Patricia Clare Ingham Livres

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.

Description of the Great Barrier Reef and industrial exploitation; includes description of dugong and turtle hunting by Aborigines and story of Damori and Quial.

The author, a Professor of English at Indiana University, brings a wealth of knowledge to her works, including an exploration of Arthurian romance and its impact on the formation of British identity. Her scholarly contributions extend to co-editing a collection that examines the intersections of postcolonial themes from medieval to modern times. Ingham's academic background enriches her insights into literature and cultural narratives.