Seers Witches and Psychics on Screen

<p> This book addresses the pervasive representation of women with unique visionary abilities in postfeminist television series and films from the 1990s to the present. These women mediate between the living and the dead or between different worlds of experience redefining what it means to be normal and challenging the traditional boundary between science and the inner world of visionary mystical experience.</p><p> Part 1 includes a discussion of modern-day Cassandra figures including the witches and other seers of the television series <I>Buffy the Vampire Slayer Angel Firefly Charmed Hex</I> and <I>Tru Calling</I>. Part 2 discusses modern television shows whose main characters represent a contemporary spin on Joan of Arc including <I>Joan of Arcadia</I> and the short-lived <I>Wonderfalls</I>. Finally Part 3 investigates female mediums and other psychic detectives in reality television series such as <I>Psychic Investigators</I> and <I>Rescue Mediums</I>; the popular television dramas <I>Medium Ghost Whisperer</I> and <I>Afterlife</I>; and contemporary films such as <I>Ghost The Gift</I> and <I>Premonition</I>.</p>