American Witches 50 Powerful Women In Black And White
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American Witches 50 Powerful Women In Black And White
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Author : Sally Eckhoff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06
American Witches 50 Powerful Women In Black And White written by Sally Eckhoff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06 with Art categories.
American Witches: 50 Powerful Women in Black and White What's a witch? Look for her silhouette-a woman in an old-fashioned black bombazine dress with a pointy hat and a pointy chin and a pointy nose that reaches around toward the tip of her chin. She's not undead; she's curiously eternal. And yet a witch is a real person-just not one that everybody is brave enough to meet. Witches are reviled, feared, attacked. But witches are admired, too, and in this book we give them all the love they've been missing. Every day, a new witch appears in the nighttime sky. Why? Because we need her. With witch applications up, the approval process is as gnarly as ever. So we need a way let the witches show their stuff. Why witches? There are times and places where only something catalytic will get the job done. Witches have that special ability to make ordinary things-brooms, for instance-do extraordinary things, in order to get to an ultimate objective, which is to mess someone up. There's nothing you can do to stop a witch, and when you get onto her list, you're gonna feel it. How did witches get so big in contemporary culture? It took a while. All those love songs, the ones that go, "She broke my heart," were just the latest fan to their flame. "She broke my heart, ergo she's a witch," finally found its own reaction. If that's the way they want it, then we're all witches. The line forms right here. To give American Witches their proper due, we found criteria that emphasize new forces in our society. An American Witch is, for our purposes, someone who's alive right now. She has to be able to catalyze her resources into powers-a talent that can surprise even the witch herself. Lastly, she has to be willing to use those powers, and damn the consequences. She can't be in it for the money. New witches are swooping over our horizons every day. Who did we miss? Send us your Witch suggestions at https: //mailchi.mp/waterstreetpressbooks/american-witches. Fifty percent of the profits from this coloring book will be donated to Stacey Abrams's voting rights organization, Fair Fight (https: //fairfight.com) because witches, well, we have each other's backs. And because voting is the most important thing a person can do, witch or not. Now find your broom and get ready to ride.
Feminist Afterlives Of The Witch
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Author : Brydie Kosmina
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Feminist Afterlives Of The Witch written by Brydie Kosmina and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Social Science categories.
The book investigates the witch as a key rhetorical symbol in twentieth- and twenty-first century feminist memory, politics, activism, and popular culture. The witch demonstrates the inheritance of paradoxical pasts, traversing numerous ideological memoryscapes. This book is an examination of the ways that the witch has been deployed by feminist activists and writers in their political efforts in the twentieth century, and how this has indelibly affected cultural memories of the witch and the witch trials, and how this plays out in popular culture representations of the symbol through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Consequently, this book considers the relationship between popular culture and media, activist politics, and cultural memory. Using hauntological theories of memory and temporality, and literary, screen, and cultural studies methodologies, this book considers how popular culture remembers, misremembers, and forgets usable pasts, and the uses (and misuses) of these memories for feminist politics. Given the ubiquity of the witch in popular culture, politics and activism since 2016, this book is a timely examination of the range of meanings inherent to the figure, and is an important study of how cultural symbols like the witch inherit paradoxical memories, histories, and politics. The book will be valuable for scholars across disciplines, including witchcraft studies, feminist philosophy and history, memory studies, and popular culture studies.
Weyward Macbeth
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Author : S. Newstok
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
Weyward Macbeth written by S. Newstok and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Performing Arts categories.
Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions. Comprehensive in its scope, this collection addresses the enduringly fraught history of 'Macbeth' in the United States, from its appearance as the first Shakespearean play documented in the American colonies to a proposed Hollywood film version with a black diasporic cast. Over two dozen contributions explore 'Macbeth's' haunting presence in American drama, poetry, film, music, history, politics, acting, and directing — all through the intersections of race and performance.
In Defense Of Witches
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Author : Mona Chollet
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2023-10-03
In Defense Of Witches written by Mona Chollet and has been published by St. Martin's Griffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-03 with Social Science categories.
Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution. Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches are both the ultimate victim and the stubborn, elusive rebel. But who were the women who were accused and often killed for witchcraft? What types of women have centuries of terror censored, eliminated, and repressed? Celebrated feminist writer Mona Chollet explores three types of women who were accused of witchcraft and persecuted: the independent woman, since widows and celibates were particularly targeted; the childless woman, since the time of the hunts marked the end of tolerance for those who claimed to control their fertility; and the elderly woman, who has always been an object of at best, pity, and at worst, horror. Examining modern society, Chollet concludes that these women continue to be harrassed and oppressed. Rather than being a brief moment in history, the persecution of witches is an example of society’s seemingly eternal misogyny, while women today are direct descendants to those who were hunted down and killed for their thoughts and actions. With fiery prose and arguments that range from the scholarly to the cultural, In Defense of Witches seeks to unite the mythic image of the witch with modern women who live their lives on their own terms.
Acts Of Gaiety
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Author : Sara Warner
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2012-10-26
Acts Of Gaiety written by Sara Warner and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-26 with Performing Arts categories.
Against queer theory's long-suffering romance with mourning and melancholia and a national agenda that urges homosexuals to renounce pleasure if they want to be taken seriously, Acts of Gaiety seeks to reanimate notions of "gaiety" as a political value for LGBT activism by recovering earlier mirthful modes of political performance. The book mines the archives of lesbian-feminist activism of the 1960s–70s, highlighting the outrageous gaiety—including camp, kitsch, drag, guerrilla theater, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside "legitimate theater”-- at the center of the social and theatrical performances of the era. Juxtaposing figures such as Valerie Solanas and Jill Johnston with more recent performers and activists including Hothead Paisan, Bitch and Animal, and the Five Lesbian Brothers, Sara Warner shows how reclaiming this largely discarded and disavowed past elucidates possibilities for being and belonging. Acts of Gaiety explores the mutually informing histories of gayness as politics and as joie de vivre, along with the centrality of liveliness to queer performance and protest.
The Black Arts 50th Anniversary Edition
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Author : Richard Cavendish
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1968-01-17
The Black Arts 50th Anniversary Edition written by Richard Cavendish and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968-01-17 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The Classic Study of the Occult Reintroduced in a 50th Anniversary Edition The Black Arts is a fascinating and wonderfully readable exploration of the practice, theory, and underlying rationale of magick and occultism in all its branches, including witchcraft, spells, numerology, astrology, alchemy, kabbalah, tarot, charms, and summoning and control of spirits. This edition features a 50th anniversary introduction by historian of alternative spirituality Mitch Horowitz, who frames the book for a new generation of readers.
The Once And Future Witches
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Author : Alix E. Harrow
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-10-13
The Once And Future Witches written by Alix E. Harrow and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with Fiction categories.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Glorious . . . a tale that will sweep you away' Yangsze Choo, New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger 'A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women' Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of Strange the Dreamer In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the three Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote - and perhaps not even to live - the sisters must delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as witches. But there will be. Praise for The Once and Future Witches: 'A brilliant dazzle of a book . . . I devoured it in enormous gulps, and utterly loved it' Kat Howard, author of The Unkindness of Ghosts 'Compelling, exhilarating and magical - a must-read' Booklist (starred review) 'Delightful . . . a tale of women's battle for equality, of fairy tales twisted into wonderfully witchy spells, of magics both large and small, and history re-imagined' Louisa Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches 'A love letter to folklore and the rebellious women of history' Publishers Weekly 'A breathtaking book - brilliant and raw and dark and complicated' Sarah Gailey, author of Magic for Liars
American Film History
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Author : Cynthia Lucia
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2015-09-08
American Film History written by Cynthia Lucia and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-08 with Performing Arts categories.
From the American underground film to the blockbuster superhero, this authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the core issues and developments in American cinematic history during the second half of the twentieth-century through the present day. Considers essential subjects that have shaped the American film industry—from the impact of television and CGI to the rise of independent and underground film; from the impact of the civil rights, feminist and LGBT movements to that of 9/11. Features a student-friendly structure dividing coverage into the periods 1960-1975, 1976-1990, and 1991 to the present day, each of which opens with an historical overview Brings together a rich and varied selection of contributions by established film scholars, combining broad historical, social, and political contexts with detailed analysis of individual films, including Midnight Cowboy, Nashville, Cat Ballou, Chicago, Back to the Future, Killer of Sheep, Daughters of the Dust, Nothing But a Man, Ali, Easy Rider, The Conversation, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Longtime Companion, The Matrix, The War Tapes, the Batman films, and selected avant-garde and documentary films, among many others. Additional online resources, such as sample syllabi, which include suggested readings and filmographies, for both general and specialized courses, will be available online. May be used alongside American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 to provide an authoritative study of American cinema from its earliest days through the new millennium
Horror Comics In Black And White
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Author : Richard J. Arndt
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-01-04
Horror Comics In Black And White written by Richard J. Arndt and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 1954, the comic book industry instituted the Comics Code, a set of self-regulatory guidelines imposed to placate public concern over gory and horrific comic book content, effectively banning genuine horror comics. Because the Code applied only to color comics, many artists and writers turned to black and white to circumvent the Code's narrow confines. With the 1964 Creepy #1 from Warren Publishing, black-and-white horror comics experienced a revival continuing into the early 21st century, an important step in the maturation of the horror genre within the comics field as a whole. This generously illustrated work offers a comprehensive history and retrospective of the black-and-white horror comics that flourished on the newsstands from 1964 to 2004. With a catalog of original magazines, complete credits and insightful analysis, it highlights an important but overlooked period in the history of comics.
Hero Me Not
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Author : Chesya Burke
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-14
Hero Me Not written by Chesya Burke and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
First introduced in the pages of X-Men, Storm is probably the most recognized Black female superhero. She is also one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe, with abilities that allow her to control the weather itself. Yet that power is almost always deployed in the service of White characters, and Storm is rarely treated as an authority figure. Hero Me Not offers an in-depth look at this fascinating yet often frustrating character through all her manifestations in comics, animation, and films. Chesya Burke examines the coding of Storm as racially “exotic,” an African woman who nonetheless has bright white hair and blue eyes and was portrayed onscreen by biracial actresses Halle Berry and Alexandra Shipp. She shows how Storm, created by White writers and artists, was an amalgam of various Black stereotypes, from the Mammy and the Jezebel to the Magical Negro, resulting in a new stereotype she terms the Negro Spiritual Woman. With chapters focusing on the history, transmedia representation, and racial politics of Storm, Burke offers a very personal account of what it means to be a Black female comics fan searching popular culture for positive images of powerful women who look like you.