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‘The Sown and the Waste’ – or, the psychedelic writing of film history

Author(s): Tybjerg, Casper

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The word ‘psychedelic’ was coined in the 1950s by psychiatrist Humphry Osmond to describe hallucinogenic drugs like mescaline and LSD – but this essay will not be about either the history of ‘head’ films or how to write film history on acid. What I want to do is to show what film historians can learn from J.H. Hexter’s writings on the rhetoric of history, including a look at what he meant when he wrote about how historians use language ‘psychedelically’.

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Tybjerg, Casper: ‘The Sown and the Waste’ – or, the psychedelic writing of film history. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 2 (2013), Nr. 2, S. 509-525. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15103.
@ARTICLE{Tybjerg2013,
 author = {Tybjerg, Casper},
 title = {‘The Sown and the Waste’ – or, the psychedelic writing of film history},
 year = 2013,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15103}",
 volume = 2,
 address = {Amsterdam},
 journal = {NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies},
 number = 2,
 pages = {509--525},
}
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