Impractical Magic

Films Discussed: ParaNorman (2012) The Blair Witch Project (1999) Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) Practical Magic (1998) The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2017) Written Material that Informed Discussion: These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling (2019)- literature Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self by Stacy Alaimo (2010)- academic/theory The Transmission of Affect by Teresa Brennan (2004)- academic/theory A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi (1992)- literature Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film by Barry Keith Grant (1996)- academic/theory In Horror Film, “The Witch,” Terror Stems from Puritanical Control of Women by Britt Ashley (2016)- theory A “final girl” who gets to get off: “The Witch” proves nothing’s scarier than an unapologetically liberated young woman by Eileen G’Seel (2016)- theory Why We Write About Witches by Sarah Gailey (2016) - pop culture article Women as Witches, Witches as Women: Witchcraft and Patriarchy in Colonial North America by Matthew Dennis and Elizabeth Reis (2015)- academic/theory Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Magic by Pamela Moro (2012)- academic/theory The Obscene Body/Politic by Carolee Schneemann (1991)- academic/theory The Embodied Goddess: Feminist Witchcraft and Female Divinity by Wendy Griffin (1995)- academic/theory The Disabling of Aging Female Bodies: Midwives, Procuresses, Witches and the Monstrous Mother by Encarnación Juárez-Almendros (2017)- academic/theory Secondary Targets? Male Witches on Trial by Lara Apps and Andrew Gow (2003)- academic/theory Invisible Men: the Historian and the Male Witch by Lara Apps and Andrew Gow (2003)- academic/theory