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Book SynopsisBringing together a multidisciplinary group of scholars from around the world, Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Hell’s Under New Management presents perspectives on the television show that situates it within contemporary discourses of genre, form, historical place, ideology, and aesthetics. The essays collected by editors Cori Mathis, Stephanie A. Graves, and Melissa Tyndall illustrate that the series is not simply interesting in the context of its status as an extension of Riverdale's narrative or as a reimagining of the popular 1990s sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Instead, with its unique blend of the Gothic, horror, and melodrama to approach the coming-of-age narrative, the series is a complex, enduring work and a significant part of the teen television canon. This thought-provoking essay collection provides multiple entry points into television studies for scholars and students alike.
Table of ContentsPART 1. “A girl who was half-witch, half-mortal”: The Witches of Greendale
Chapter 1: The Revised Image of the Witch: Historical Archetypes Revamped for the Contemporary Online Audience
Farhana Irshad
Chapter 2: The Inclusive Witch in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Diana Celeste Etain and Cori Mathis
Chapter 3: Controlling the Female Body: Foucault, Catholic Ireland, and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Shannon Hughes Spence and Cori Mathis
PART 2. “I want freedom and power”: Depictions of Feminism
Chapter 4: Proliferating Feminisms and the Irruption of the Material in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Tp Coughlin
Chapter 5: The Devil You Know? Feminism and Postmodern Pastiche of Satanism and the Infernal in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Alice Capstick
Chapter 6: Giving Satanic and Divine Patriarchy a Run for Their Money: Hybridity, Liminality, and Female Empowerment in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Luisa Fernanda Grijalva-Maza
PART 3. “I feel more myself in boys’ clothes”: Identity and Intersectionality
Chapter 7: From Having to Choose to Being Chosen: Analyzing Sabrina as a Mixed (Race) Being
Lisa Delacruz Combs, Nicole Neifert, and Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero
Chapter 8: “I want freedom and power”: The Allegory of Queer Rhetoric in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Stephanie A. Graves
Chapter 9: Empowering Liminality in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Laura Davidel
PART 4. “Top boy, Sabrina?”: Gender and Gender Performance
Chapter 10: “I’m sick of being the afterthought, the joke”: Hilda Spellman’s Empowering Domesticity in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Katie E. Cline
Chapter 11: The Gothic Mother and Daughter in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Melissa Tyndall
Chapter 12: Devouring Women, Consuming Men: Cats, Mice, and the World of Sabrina Spellman
David Rosen
PART 5. “Where it always feels like Halloween”: Style and Form
Chapter 13: “What’s needed here is a fundamental shift in thinking”: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and the Complexities of the Teen Drama
Cori Mathis
Chapter 14: The Legacy, Liberation, and Limitations of Gender and Genre in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Lori Bindig Yousman
Chapter 15: Anachronistic Bricolage and Eternal Autumn Aesthetic in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Daria Romanova and Maggie Webster
Chapter 16: Intersecting Narratives and the Book(s) of the Beast: The Multiplicity of Textual Engagements and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Alissa Burger
