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Seers, Witches and Psychics on Screen
- An Analysis of Women Visionary Characters in Recent Television and Film
Engelsk Paperback
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- An Analysis of Women Visionary Characters in Recent Television and Film
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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. 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.

Part 1 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. Part 2 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, Part 3 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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
219
ISBN-13:
9780786433469
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0786433469
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
31 okt 2008
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
31 okt 2008
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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