Bringing 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.
Cori Mathis is professor in the Department of Cinematic Arts and director of LIGHT, an intercultural education program, and the Writing Studio at Lipscomb University. Stephanie A. Graves is a PhD candidate in English at Georgia State University. Melissa Tyndall is an independent scholar and two-time Tennessee Press Award winner.
PART 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
