Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches
By (Author) Miranda Corcoran
University of Wales Press
University of Wales Press
25th October 2022
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Television
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Feminism and feminist theory
306.4
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Description
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.
Author Bio
Miranda Corcoran is a lecturer of English at University College Cork.
