‘The Sown and the Waste’ – or, the psychedelic writing of film history
NECSUS 2013 Alexandra Schneider, Wanda Strauven, Casper Tybjerg 1 citation
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...