Bell, Book and Camera is a critical history of witches in American film and television. I’m thinking this could be a really interesting textbook over at Dark Side University. The book includes films and shows with witches as main characters, witches as minor characters, witches as antagonists, and shows where there’s a mere threat of witchcraft.
Note that the book is a LOT cheaper if you buy it for your Kindle rather than the paperback edition.
The table of Contents includes:
- Introduction: A Woman Unleashed
- Wild Women, Vamps and Green Skin
- War and Weird Women
- Toward a New Hollywood
- Horror and the Fantastic
- The Satanic Panic
- and A New Witch Order
The chapter I’d like to personally read the most is “Toward a New Hollywood,” talking about Samantha in Bewitched, and Ray Harryhausen’s Hansel & Gretel.
Patheos.com reviewed the book, if you would like to see what they thought.