{"product_id":"seers-witches-and-psychics-on-screen","title":"Seers, Witches and Psychics on Screen","description":"\u003cp\u003e   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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Part 1 includes a discussion of modern-day Cassandra figures, including the witches and other \"seers\" of the television series \u003ci\u003eBuffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Charmed, Hex\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTru Calling\u003c\/i\u003e. Part 2 discusses modern television shows whose main characters represent a contemporary spin on Joan of Arc, including \u003ci\u003eJoan of Arcadia\u003c\/i\u003e and the short-lived \u003ci\u003eWonderfalls\u003c\/i\u003e. Finally, Part 3 investigates female mediums and other \"psychic detectives\" in reality television series such as \u003ci\u003ePsychic Investigators\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRescue Mediums\u003c\/i\u003e; the popular television dramas \u003ci\u003eMedium, Ghost Whisperer\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAfterlife\u003c\/i\u003e; and contemporary films such as \u003ci\u003eGhost, The Gift\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePremonition\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54259931087192,"sku":"9780786433469","price":27.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780786433469_36f369b0-7c55-4a3d-8849-d0408ad55deb.jpg?v=1765587649","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/seers-witches-and-psychics-on-screen","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}