Investigating Charmed: The Magic Power of TV (Investigating Cult TV)
Language: English
Pages: 272
ISBN: 1845114809
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
'Investigating Charmed' is the first comprehensive guide to this groundbreaking series. It brings together for the first time expert contributors - all fans of the show - to explore the show's unique brand of witchcraft and fantasy. From notions of upturned sexuality and alternative forms of family life, to ideas of feminism and the portrayal of female heroes, this book penetrates the very heart of the 'power of three' and their crusade against the demonic population of the underworld. Looking also at the fans' relationship to the show, as well as the novels, fan fics and blogs it has spurned, the book on this fantastic magical show concludes with a complete Episode Guide which covers all eight seasons.
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and Paige, are caught in the disciplinary power of patriarchy, which persuades females to diminish their own power by focusing on non-threatening aspects such as physical appearance and romantic heterosexual relationships. If this were all that Charmed portrayed then it would be redundant to write about the show. Numerous feminist scholars and writers have examined the way that portrayals in US popular culture present women who police themselves to conform to patriarchal standards of
between this battle of women in fairy tales and the differences between second- and third-wave feminists. The second-wavers have been critical of third-wavers for expressing their brand of feminism.20 The fact that the evil witch (a stand-in for disapproving second-wave feminists) is vanquished by Piper in this episode indicates that the older feminine order is displaced by the newer. Grams presents a more complicated view of the archetypal feminine identity of the maternal. She is part of the
and expression of sexuality conflicted with this time. This representation has parallels with what Astrid Henry identifies as second-wave feminism’s ‘ideological battle over the meaning of sexuality’, which included debates about whether ‘sexual freedom and pleasure were central to women’s political liberation’ or whether ‘sex was primarily a site of oppression and danger to women’.27 The destruction of the siren represents the destruction of this polarized debate in the sense that third-wave
to her former self. Paige’s detachment from the abject is signalled immediately. She wakes up on the floor of the lair, still wearing the red dress but her face is bare and wiped clean. Her renunciation is complete the following morning when she comes downstairs to breakfast at the manor wearing an oversized and shapeless woolly beige cardigan and pigtails: she is both covered up and infantilized in one fell swoop. Paige’s vampiric family has been destroyed, as have her lesbian proclivities. She
narrative.3 When Paige (Rose McGowan) comes into the narrative after Prue’s death, the whole complex, yet repetitive, structure of sisterly relationships is altered. Piper is transformed from the middle sister to the eldest, and although Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) becomes the middle sister, in many ways she maintains her plot function as the most immature and therefore irresponsible of the three; she is constantly in Charmed13-sbeeler.indd 130 06/07/2007 12:20:13 There is Nothing New in the