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Impractical Magic Abbey Elizabeth Murphy
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- Society & Culture
In this hour-and-a-half special, we’re getting lit like it's 1692 and mixing some hot tea with some cold brew! Your heinous hosts Abbey and Juliette will be diving into a collection of witchy films that span twenty years and analyzing their relationships to each other and the monsters they display. While discussing portrayals of witches from real to reel, we will be considering their positions in film, fiction, feminism, and history. What results from constant invasion and brutalization of the female body? What makes a monster? Who is the monster? Let's dive into movie witchcraft to find out!
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The Portrayals of Witches From Real to Reel
Films Discussed:
ParaNorman (2012)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
Practical Magic (1998)
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2017)
Written Material that Informed Discussion:
These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling (2019)- literature
Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self by Stacy Alaimo (2010)- academic/theory
The Transmission of Affect by Teresa Brennan (2004)- academic/theory
A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi (1992)- literature
Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film by Barry Keith Grant (1996)- academic/theory
In Horror Film, “The Witch,” Terror Stems from Puritanical Control of Women by Britt Ashley (2016)- theory
A “final girl” who gets to get off: “The Witch” proves nothing’s scarier than an unapologetically liberated young woman by Eileen G’Seel (2016)- theory
Why We Write About Witches by Sarah Gailey (2016)
- pop culture article
Women as Witches, Witches as Women: Witchcraft and Patriarchy in Colonial North America by Matthew Dennis and Elizabeth Reis (2015)- academic/theory
Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Magic by Pamela Moro (2012)- academic/theory
The Obscene Body/Politic by Carolee Schneemann (1991)- academic/theory
The Embodied Goddess: Feminist Witchcraft and Female Divinity by Wendy Griffin (1995)- academic/theory
The Disabling of Aging Female Bodies: Midwives, Procuresses, Witches and the Monstrous Mother by Encarnación Juárez-Almendros (2017)- academic/theory
Secondary Targets? Male Witches on Trial by Lara Apps and Andrew Gow (2003)- academic/theory
Invisible Men: the Historian and the Male Witch by Lara Apps and Andrew Gow (2003)- academic/theory