The New Witches

Critical Essays on 21st Century Television Portrayals
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4766-7915-0
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ho, Aaron K. H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk

Über Autor(innen)

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.