Seers, Witches and Psychics on Screen: An Analysis of Women Visionary Characters in Recent Television and Film

by Karin Beeler

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This book addresses the pervasive representation of women with unique visionary abilities in postfeminist television series and films from the 1990s to the present. These women mediate between the living and the dead or between different worlds of experience, redefining what it means to be "normal" and challenging the traditional boundary between science and the inner world of visionary, mystical experience.

Part 1 includes a discussion...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0786433469

ISBN13:9780786433469

Release Date:October 2008

Publisher:McFarland & Company

Length:219 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.7"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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