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From The Wizard of Oz to The Love Witch, a history of the witch in American film and TV.
Lights, Camera, Witchcraft is a new history of the witch, according to American film and television – a multi-faceted figure and source of much fascination, horror and humour for over almost a century and a half on screen, beginning with her (and it is almost always her) first appearance in the 1898 short film The Cavalier's Dream. Heather Greene begins in this age of the silent film, tracing the evolution of the Hollywood witch, who would undergo countless inventions and reinventions – from the iconic Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, to Thomasine in Robert Eggers' modern folk horror film The VVitch. Film and TV buffs will appreciate Greene's critical commentary, uncovering the wider contexts of the witch and her many manifestations both on and off screen.
Woodbury: Llewellyn, 2018. Softcover, 480 pages. New.
