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Television witches: powerful, diverse, transgressive icons.

If you've felt the draw of spellbinding TV witches and their evolution from sideline to spotlight, "The New Witches" offers an enriching dive into their resurgence. This book promises to enchant with scholarly insights into how modern witch portrayals cross boundaries, challenge stereotypes, and reflect the complexities of third-wave feminism, especially in a post-#MeToo world. Whether you're a fan of the shows discussed or interested in the cultural shifts they represent, this could help you understand the nuances behind the broomstick and beyond.

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ISBN: 9781476679150
Authors: Aaron K H Ho
Publisher: McFarland
Date of Publication: 2021-07-13
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Art, Politics, Sociology, History
Goodreads rating: 5.0
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After Charmed ended in 2006, witches were relegated to sidekicks of televisual vampires or children's programs. But during the mid-2010s they began to resurface as leading characters in shows like the immensely popular The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the Charmed reboot, Salem, American Horror Coven, and the British program, A Discovery of Witches. No longer sweet, feminine, domestic, and white, these witches are powerful, diverse, and transgressive, representing an intersectional third-wave feminist vision of the witch. Featuring original essays from noted scholars, this is the first critical collection to examine witches on television from the late 2010s. Situated in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement, essays examine the reemergence and shifting identities of TV witches through the perspectives of intersectional gender studies, hauntology, politics, morality, monstrosity, violence, queerness, disabilities, rape, ecofeminism, linguistics, family, and digital humanities.
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Television witches: powerful, diverse, transgressive icons.

If you've felt the draw of spellbinding TV witches and their evolution from sideline to spotlight, "The New Witches" offers an enriching dive into their resurgence. This book promises to enchant with scholarly insights into how modern witch portrayals cross boundaries, challenge stereotypes, and reflect the complexities of third-wave feminism, especially in a post-#MeToo world. Whether you're a fan of the shows discussed or interested in the cultural shifts they represent, this could help you understand the nuances behind the broomstick and beyond.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.