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Seers, Witches and Psychics on Screen - An Analysis of Women Visionary Characters in Recent Television and Film (Paperback)
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Seers, Witches and Psychics on Screen - An Analysis of Women Visionary Characters in Recent Television and Film (Paperback)
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This book addresses the pervasive representation of women with
unique visionary abilities in postfeminist television series and
films from the 1990s to the present. Whether the female characters
take the form of seer figures, witches, mediums, or women with the
ability to see or know the future, these 'women of vision' suggest
unique ways of constructing female heroes as saviors in a
postfeminist era. These women mediate between the living and the
dead or between different worlds of experience, redefining what it
means to be 'normal' and challenging the traditional boundary
between science and the inner world of visionary, mystical
experience.History and myth mention many female visionaries, but
Cassandra and Joan of Arc stand above the rest as the most imitated
icons for modern 'women of vision' in popular culture. Fittingly,
the first two sections of this book offer an examination of several
television series or films which use these legendary women as key
prototypes or points of departure for their own heroines or
protagonists.Section one includes a discussion of modern-day
Cassandra figures, including the witches and other 'seers' of the
television series ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"", ""Angel"",
""Firefly"", ""Charmed"", ""Hex"", and ""Tru Calling"". Section two
discusses modern television shows whose main characters represent a
contemporary spin on ""Joan of Arc"", including ""Joan of Arcadia""
and the short-lived ""Wonderfalls"". Finally, section three
investigates female mediums and other 'psychic detectives' in
reality television series such as ""Psychic Investigators"" and
""Rescue Mediums""; the popular television dramas ""Medium"",
""Ghost Whisperer"", and ""Afterlife""; and contemporary films such
as ""Ghost"", ""The Gift"", and ""Premonition"".
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