Magical Women, Witches & Healers

Issue 16, Winter 2019

Letter from the Editors


Witch’s Curse: Hegemonic Narratives, Female Melancholy, and the Perseverance of Patriarchy in Liza, the Fox-Fairy


“Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?”: Female Persecution and Redemption in The Witch


Vampires, Jinn and the Magical in Iranian Horror Films


Hag Witches and Women’s Liberation: Negotiations of Feminist Excess in the U.S. Horror Film, 1968-1972


Blood and Tears and Potions and Flame: Excesses of Transformation in Ari Aster’s Midsommar


Sun Flowers and Moon Powers: Princesses and Magical Agency in Tangled and The Tale of the Princess Kaguya


Medea: The Magical Woman Since Antiquity


The Left-Hand Path: On the Dialectics of Witchery in The Witch and Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse


Gazing at the Witches: From Women on the Verge of a Breakdown to Reclaiming the Eco-Witch in 1960s-1970s Film


Maya Deren: The Magical Woman as Filmmaker


Makeup as Dark Magic: The Love Witch and the Subversive Female Gaze


The Choreographer as a Witch in Contemporary Dance Documentaries


From the Evil Queen to Elsa: Camp Witches in Disney Films


The Witch Who Wasn’t: The Erasure of Afrocentric Sorcery in The Witch of Timbuctoo


Bless me, Ultima and the Representation of Social Relations in the Mexican-American Borderlands


Bell, Book and Camera: A Critical History of Witches in American Film and Television

Reviewed by Ana Maria Sapountzi


Cinema of Confinement

Reviewed by Cassice Last


Transnational Cinema: An Introduction

Reviewed by Sanghita Sen


The Devils and The Devil’s Advocates

Reviewed by Matthew Melia