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Author:   Professor Douglas Brode ,  Dr. Leah Deyneka (Independent Scholar, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9798765122303

Pages:   328
Publication Date:   28 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Villain Still Pursues Us Douglas 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 Man Kevin M. Flanagan (George Mason University, USA) 7. The Nightsisters of Dathomir: How Witchcraft Came to the Star Wars Universe Cyrus 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 Suspiria Allison Craven (James Cook University, Australia) 11. Bodies of Knowledge and Bodies of Power: Dario Argento's Inferno Dennin 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 Castle Melissa Guadrón (Ohio State University, USA) 13. Shadow of Suspicion: Representations of Witchcraft and Misogyny Across Cultures Natalie 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 Witch Susan 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 Witchcraft Douglas Brode (Syracuse University, USA) Index

Reviews

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 * Kathy Merlock Jackson, Professor of Media and Communication, Virginia Wesleyan University, USA * In the past we demonized them, hunted them down, tortured and hanged them, and burned them at the stake. To no effect. Nothing could suppress our fascination with witches and witchcraft. In this dynamic new collection by sharp-witted young scholar critics, we can examine the diverse and contradictory ways that popular culture has depicted the witches. In some trials we are rooting for them. * James MacKillop, author of The Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (2004), USA * Smart and versatile, Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka’s spell-binding collection is something wicked indeed, containing nineteen brand new discussions of witchcraft and wizardry in movies, television, and penny dreadfuls. Vital for researchers and enthusiasts, itsinsights into misogyny, magic, and transgressive behavior are accessible and engaging. Carefully researched, this book is a must-read for feminist and film scholars, mass media buffs, and fans of Witch-Lit. It’s a must-have for anyone interested in the occult and the ubiquitous Wiccan in popular culture. * Sue Matheson, Professor, University College of the North, Canada *

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 * Kathy Merlock Jackson, Professor of Media and Communication, Virginia Wesleyan University, USA * In the past we demonized them, hunted them down, tortured and hanged them, and burned them at the stake. To no effect. Nothing could suppress our fascination with witches and witchcraft. In this dynamic new collection by sharp-witted young scholar critics, we can examine the diverse and contradictory ways that popular culture has depicted the witches. In some trials we are rooting for them. * James MacKillop, author of The Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (2004), USA * Smart and versatile, Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka’s spell-binding collection is something wicked indeed, containing nineteen brand new discussions of witchcraft and wizardry in movies, television, and penny dreadfuls. Vital for researchers and enthusiasts, itsinsights into misogyny, magic, and transgressive behavior are accessible and engaging. Carefully researched, this book is a must-read for feminist and film scholars, mass media buffs, and fans of Witch-Lit. It’s a must-have for anyone interested in the occult and the ubiquitous Wiccan in popular culture. * Sue Matheson, Professor, University College of the North, Canada * The anthology Something Wicked: Witchcraft in Movies, Television, and Popular Culture stands as a perfect illustration of what a witchcraft renaissance looks like in con-temporary media-cultural studies. * Rezens.tfm *

Author Information

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.

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