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In recent years, teen witches have become highly visible figures.
Fictional adolescent witches have headlined popular television
shows like The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-2021) and
American Horror Story: Coven (2013-2014), while their real-life
counterparts have become minor celebrities on Instagram and TikTok.
As such, now is the ideal time to revisit Andrew Fleming’s 1996
supernatural horror film The Craft. A cult favourite, especially
amongst young women, The Craft is a story about teen witches that
employs the conventions of occult horror to explore themes of
power, friendship and responsibility. This entry in the Devil’s
Advocates series is a deep dive into the history, production and
meaning of The Craft. Situating The Craft within the teen horror
revival of the 1990s, Miranda Corcoran analyses the film within the
context of nineties popular and political culture, while also
discussing its treatment of issues such as race, gender, sexuality
and class. Delving into the history of witchcraft beliefs and
persecutions, this book also investigates how The Craft modifies
the archetype of the witch and traces the film’s influence on
subsequent popular culture.
Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires,
witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury's Elliott family
stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output.
Written between 1946 and 1994, Bradbury eventually quilted the
stories together into a novel, From the Dust Returned (2001),
making it a creative project that spanned his adult life. Not only
do the stories focus on a single familial unit, engaging with
overlapping twentieth-century themes of family, identity and
belonging, they were also unique in their time, interrogating
post-war American ideologies of domestic unity while reinventing
and softening gothic horror for the Baby Boomer generation. Centred
around diverse interpretations of the Elliott Family stories, this
collection of critical essays recovers the Elliotts for academic
purposes by exploring how they form a collective gothic mythos
while ranging across distinct themes. Essays included discuss the
diverse ways in which the Elliott stories pose questions about
difference and Otherness in America; engage with issues of gender,
sexuality, and adolescence; and interrogate complex discourses
surrounding history, identity, community, and the fantasy of
family.
In the decades since the Second World War, the teenage witch has
emerged as a major American cultural trope. Appearing in films,
novels, comics and on television, adolescent witches have long
reflected shifting societal attitudes towards the teenage
demographic. At the same time, teen witches have also served as a
means through which adolescent femininity can be conceptualised,
interrogated and reimagined. Drawing on a wide theoretical
framework - including the works of Deleuze and Foucault as well as
recent new materialist philosophies - this book explores how the
adolescent witch has evolved over the course of more than seventy
years. Moving from the birth of the bobby soxer in the 1940s
through to twenty-first-century teenage engagements with
fourth-wave feminism, this book treats a range of themes including
embodiment, agency, identity, violence and sexuality.
Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires,
witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury's Elliott family
stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output.
Written between 1946 and 1994, Bradbury eventually quilted the
stories together into a novel, From the Dust Returned (2001),
making it a creative project that spanned his adult life. Not only
do the stories focus on a single familial unit, engaging with
overlapping twentieth-century themes of family, identity and
belonging, they were also unique in their time, interrogating
post-war American ideologies of domestic unity while reinventing
and softening gothic horror for the Baby Boomer generation. Centred
around diverse interpretations of the Elliott Family stories, this
collection of critical essays recovers the Elliotts for academic
purposes by exploring how they form a collective gothic mythos
while ranging across distinct themes. Essays included discuss the
diverse ways in which the Elliott stories pose questions about
difference and Otherness in America; engage with issues of gender,
sexuality, and adolescence; and interrogate complex discourses
surrounding history, identity, community, and the fantasy of
family.
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