Something Wicked

Douglas Brode, now retired, was the Creator/Coordinator of the Film Classics Program for The Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, USA. He is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright, film historian, multi-award winning journalist, and multi-award winning educator.Leah Deyneka holds a master’s degree in 19th-century literature from King’s College, London, UK, and has written extensively on literature, film, media, and popular culture.

Doug Brode is an innovative and prolific scholar who is known for exploring new areas and taking unconventional angles. In Something Wicked, he and co-editor Leah Deyneka present a provocative look at witchcraft in popular media, acknowledging the ways in which witches evoke questions regarding marginalization, diversity, and disability. This book is invaluable for those studying inclusion in American culture and media

• Introduction: The Villain Still Pursues UsDouglas Brode (Syracuse University, USA)1. “Seen in the Sphere of Lilith”: Lilith as the Progenitor of Witches and Other “Nasty Women” J.S. Starkweather (Independent Scholar)2. “In My Time I Have Been Called Many Things”: Morgan le Fay in Popular Culture Marta Cobb (University of Leeds, UK)3. Through a Lens Darkly: Dreyer’s Witches James Morrison (Claremont McKenna College, USA)4. Sorcery in the Suburbs: Bewitched, Resistance and Gender Transgression Fran Pheasant-Kelly (Wolverhampton University, USA)5. Rosemary’s Baby: Rosemary’s Body and the Devil Inside Jeremy Carr (Arizona State University, USA)6. Whose Law is it Anyway?: Detection, Magic, and the Uncanny Spaces of The Wicker ManKevin M. Flanagan (George Mason University, USA)7. The Nightsisters of Dathomir: How Witchcraft Came to the Star Wars UniverseCyrus R. K. Patell (New York University, USA)8. Sirius Black and the Wizard World: Power and Bias in Harry Potter Hafsa Alkhudairi (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)9. Disenchantment, Haunting, and The Witch’s Ghost!Jeffrey McCambridge (Ohio University, USA)10. Suzy, We Always Knew You: The Timeless Terror of Witches in Old and New SuspiriaAllison Craven (James Cook University, Australia)11. Bodies of Knowledge and Bodies of Power: Dario Argento's InfernoDennin Ellis (Ohio State University, USA)12. “The Mark May be Gone but the Spell is Still There”: Dis/abling Magic and Gender in Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving CastleMelissa Guadrón (Ohio State University, USA)13. Shadow of Suspicion: Representations of Witchcraft and Misogyny Across CulturesNatalie Rosiek (University of Buffalo, USA)14. “A Woman Who Walks in the Footsteps of the Goddess:” Genre, Adaptation, and A Discovery of Witches’ Transformation of the Cinematic WitchSusan Aronstein (University of Wyoming, USA)15. “So the Darkness Spoke”: The Witch as a Compromised Figure of Liberation in Penny Dreadful Jack W. Shear (Binghamton University, USA)16. No Safe Spaces: The American Colonial West as Historical Horror in Robert Eggers’s The Witch.Garrett Castleberry (Mid-America Christian University, USA)17. Gaia’s Vengeance: Ecofeminist Horror in Apostle (2018)Kerri-Leanne Taylor (University of Miami, USA)18. A Witch in Westeros: Melisandre, Compulsory Maternity, and the ‘Snow White’ Factor Heidi Breuer (California State University, San Marcos, USA)19. Something Wicked This Way Comes: Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of WitchcraftDouglas Brode (Syracuse University, USA)Index