Films Discussed:

ParaNorman (2012)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Practical Magic (1998)

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2017)

Written Material that Informed Discussion:

These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling (2019)- literature

Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self by Stacy Alaimo (2010)- academic/theory

The Transmission of Affect by Teresa Brennan (2004)- academic/theory

A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi (1992)- literature

Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film by Barry Keith Grant (1996)- academic/theory

In Horror Film, “The Witch,” Terror Stems from Puritanical Control of Women by Britt Ashley (2016)- theory

A “final girl” who gets to get off: “The Witch” proves nothing’s scarier than an unapologetically liberated young woman by Eileen G’Seel (2016)- theory

Why We Write About Witches by Sarah Gailey (2016)

- pop culture article

Women as Witches, Witches as Women: Witchcraft and Patriarchy in Colonial North America by Matthew Dennis and Elizabeth Reis (2015)- academic/theory

Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Magic by Pamela Moro (2012)- academic/theory

The Obscene Body/Politic by Carolee Schneemann (1991)- academic/theory

The Embodied Goddess: Feminist Witchcraft and Female Divinity by Wendy Griffin (1995)- academic/theory

The Disabling of Aging Female Bodies: Midwives, Procuresses, Witches and the Monstrous Mother by Encarnación Juárez-Almendros (2017)- academic/theory

Secondary Targets? Male Witches on Trial by Lara Apps and Andrew Gow (2003)- academic/theory

Invisible Men: the Historian and the Male Witch by Lara Apps and Andrew Gow (2003)- academic/theory