Full Description
This book presents interdisciplinary perspectives on Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, situating the series within contemporary discourses of genre, form, historical place, ideology, and aesthetics. The essays in this collection argue that the series' unique blend of horror, the Gothic, and melodrama offers a compelling approach to the coming-of-age narrative and makes CAoS a significant part of the teen television canon.
Contents
PART 1. "A girl who was half-witch, half-mortal": The Witches of Greendale
Chapter 1: The Revised Image of the Witch: Historical Archetypes Revamped for the Contemporary Online Audience
Farhana Irshad
Chapter 2: The Inclusive Witch in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Diana Celeste Etain and Cori Mathis
Chapter 3: Controlling the Female Body: Foucault, Catholic Ireland, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Shannon Hughes Spence and Cori Mathis
PART 2. "I want freedom and power": Depictions of Feminism
Chapter 4: Proliferating Feminisms and the Irruption of the Material in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Tp Coughlin
Chapter 5: The Devil You Know? Feminism and Postmodern Pastiche of Satanism and the Infernal in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Alice Capstick
Chapter 6: Giving Satanic and Divine Patriarchy a Run for Their Money: Hybridity, Liminality, and Female Empowerment in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Luisa Fernanda Grijalva-Maza
PART 3. "I feel more myself in boys' clothes": Identity and In
