The New Witches

Critical Essays on 21st Century Television Portrayals
Herausgeber: Ho, Aaron K. H.

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Story: 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9781476679150
• ISBN-10: 1476679150
• Artikelnr.: 63356984

Autorenporträt

Assistant professor Aaron K.H. Ho has worked at universities in New York, China, and Singapore. He has published on intersectional minority studies (race, gender, queer, and disabilities) in various peer-reviewed books and journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction-"That's how I like my witches": The New Witches on
21st-Century Television
Aaron K.H. Ho
Intersectional Politics and History: Race, the #MeToo Movement and the
Witch
"This is a reckoning": Intersectional Feminism and the #MeToo Movement in
Charmed
Katherine J. Lehman
From Witchcraft Activism to Witch Hunt Sentiments: The Changing Political
Landscape in American Horror Story
Johanna Braun
Re-Remembering the Past: Hauntological Feminist Memories of Salem in
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Brydie Kosmina
Good Witch, Bad Witch: Identities and Ethics
Declawing the Jungle Cat: Caging Feminine Power on the CW's The Secret
Circle
Charity A. Fowler
The Witches of the West and the Boundaries of Goodness
Lindsey Mantoan
"When witches don't fight, we burn!" Monstrosity and Violence in American
Horror Story: Coven
Emily Brick
The Witchy Body: Sexualities and Disabilities
Condensing the Palate: Queer Representation and Heteronormativity in
Charmed
Samuel Naimi
Queerness and Historical Sadomasochism in Salem
Tanner Alan Sebastian
Teenage Furies: The Rape-Revenge Genre in American Horror Story: Coven
Christine R. Payson
Witches with Disabilities on 21st-Century Television Programs
Aaron K.H. Ho
Disembodiment of the Witch: Ecofeminism, Digital Humanities and Beyond
Blood
The Literal and the Metaphorical: Othered Voices in Salem
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
"The world never did help a smart girl": Disembodied Digitalization, the
Open Access Library and BuzzFeed in The Magicians
Natalie R. Sheppard
Beyond Blood: The Negotiation of Biological and Chosen Families in Chilling
Adventures of Sabrina
Alissa Burger
Appendix: 21st-Century Television and Streaming Programs with Witches
About the Contributors
Index