Glamorous witchcraft: Gender and magic in teen film and television

Screen

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 403-422

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EID: 38749093225     PISSN: 00369543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/screen/43.4.403     Document Type: Article

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2. Charlotte Brunsdon, Screen Tastes: Soap Opera to Satellite Dishes (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 85-6
3. Joanne Hollows, Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000)
4. Jacinda Read, The New Avengers: Feminism, Femininity and the Rape-Revenge Cycle (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000)
5. Norma Sherratt, 'Girls, jobs and glamour', Feminist Review, no. 15 (1983), pp. 47-62
6. Jackie Stacey, Star Gazing: Hollywood Cinema and Female Spectatorship (London: Routledge, 1994)
7. Beverley Skeggs, Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable (London: Sage, 1997)
8. Skeggs, Formations of Class and Gender, pp. 110-11
9. URL: http://www.paramountclassics.com/virginsuicides/html-3/[9 April 2002]
10. Sharon Russell, 'The witch in film: myth and reality', in Barry Keith Grant (ed.), Planks of Reason: Essays on the Horror Film (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1984). Russell makes the point that in early cinema, films employed witches in order to maximize the potential for spectacular cinematic trickery
11. See Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers and other Pagans in America Today (1979) (New York: Penguin Arkana, 1997)
12. Phyllis W. Curott, Book of Shadows (London: Piatkus, 1999)
13. See Robin Morgan, Sisterhood is Powerful (New York: Random House, 1970)
14. Diane Purkiss, The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth Century Representations (London and New York: Routledge, 1996)
15. Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology: the Metaethics of Radical Feminism (Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 1979)
16. Adler, Drawing Down the Moon, p. 179
17. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, Witches, Midwives and Nurses: a History of Women Healers (London: Writers and Readers Publishing Co-operative, 1973), p. 23
18. Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971), pp. 620-23
19. Elizabeth Reis (ed.), Spellbound: Women and Witchcraft in America (Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1998), p. xii
20. Carol J. Clover, Men, Women and Chain-Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (London: British Film Institute, 1992), pp. 3-4
21. Barbara Creed, The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis (London and New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. 11, 14
22. See Purkiss, The Witch in History, ch. 4
23. Nadene Ghouri, 'I was a teenage witch', The Big Issue, 19-25 June 2000, pp. 14-15
24. Silver Raven Wolf, Teen Witch: Wicca for a New Generation (St Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2000), p. 15
25. see also Silver RavenWolf, To Ride a Silver Broomstick: New Generation Witchcraft (St Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2000). Clearly, the increased incidence of US high school violence, linked in the media to an interest in the occult, is a context here
26. Lynn Spigel, 'From domestic space to outer space: the 1960s fantastic family sit-com', in Constance Penley, Elisabeth Lyon, Lynn Spigel and Janet Bergstrom (eds), Close Encounters: Film, Feminism and Science Fiction (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1991), pp. 205-35
27. See Penny Sparke, 'The happy housewife: domesticity renewed', in As Long As It's Pink: the Sexual Politics of Taste (London: Pandora, 1995), pp. 165-85
28. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (London: Gollancz, 1963)
29. I am grateful to Helen Wheatley for pointing out this connection
30. See Sarah Projansky and Leah R. Vande Berg, 'Sabrina, the teenage ...? Girls, witches, mortals, and the limitations of prime-time feminism', in Elyce Rae Helford (ed.), Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television (Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000), pp. 13-40, for a discussion of the articulation of feminist and feminine discourses in Sabrina the Teenage Witch