Seers, Witches and Psychics on Screen: An Analysis of Women Visionary Characters in Recent Television and Film

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. Part 1 includes a discussion of modern-day Cassandra figures, including the witches and other "seers" of the television series , and . Part 2 discusses modern television shows whose main characters represent a contemporary spin on Joan of Arc, including and the short-lived . Finally, Part 3 investigates female mediums and other "psychic detectives" in reality television series such as and ; the popular television dramas ; and contemporary films such as .