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Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches

Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches

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Series: Horror Studies

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ISBN10: 1786838923
ISBN13: 9781786838926
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: Oct 21 2022
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
A study of teenage witches in twentieth-century American pop culture.

The teenage witch emerged in American fiction in the late twentieth century, quickly becoming a cultural touchstone. Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture reveals how novels, films, television, and comics about witchy women register shifting attitudes toward adolescent femininity. Drawing on Deleuzian, Foucauldian, and new materialist theories, Miranda Corcoran charts a new feminist history from 1940s bobbysoxer to today, untangling strands of embodiments, agency, and violence.

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