Category Archives: television

Heather Greene on her new book “Lights, Camera, Witchcraft”

November 9th, 2021 | Posted in film, television, Wicca, Witchcraft

From Joan the Woman and The Wizard of Oz to Carrie and Charmed, author and film scholar Heather Greene explores how these movies and TV shows helped influence the public image of the witch and profoundly affected how women negotiate their power in a patriarchal society. Greene presents more than two hundred examples spanning silent […]

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Pop Culture Reactions to “Salem”

June 2nd, 2014 | Posted in horror, Satan, television, Wicca, Witchcraft

If you haven’t seen the Salem television series on WGN it’s worth checking out. It eagerly scoops up Christian mythologies of the Witch as the consort of Satan, a frequent trope in horror films, and uses this as the major element in a reframing of the events surrounding the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Given […]

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“In the Flesh” Teases on the Redeemed

May 25th, 2014 | Posted in In the Flesh, television, zombie

Previously I’ve commented on the interesting program airing on the BBC/BBC America, In the Flesh, which represents a thought provoking subgenre of the zombie narrative. One of the areas of interest to TheoFantastique is the incorporation of a religious element. In this case it’s an eschatological aspect, of sorts, wherein a group of Partial Deceased […]

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Reflections on the BBC’s “In the Flesh”

December 13th, 2013 | Posted in In the Flesh, television, zombie

Somehow in my Internet surfing a couple of months ago I stumbled across the website for BBC America and their description of the miniseries In the Flesh. This fresh take on zombie mythology fascinated me, but I was saddened that I wouldn’t be able to do anything other than watch sample clips and background information […]

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Titles of Interest: Reading Mystery Science Theater 3000

December 2nd, 2013 | Posted in Mystery Science Theater 3000, satire, science fiction, television, Titles of Interest

Reading Mystery Science Theater 3000: Critical Approaches (Scarecrow Press, 2013), Shelley S. Rees, editor. First broadcast in the not too distant past on a television station in Minnesota, Mystery Science Theater 3000 soon grew out of its humble beginnings and found a new home on cable television. This simple show about a man and two […]

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‘In the Flesh:’ Social Rehabiliation after “Partially Deceased Syndrome”

October 23rd, 2013 | Posted in In the Flesh, television, zombie

I recently became aware of a television three-part series on the BBC that presents a fascinating twist on zombies, called In the Flesh. The program’s website provides a summary of the plotline: In The Flesh is an exciting new three-part drama for BBC Three that tells the story of zombie teenager Kieren Walker (Luke Newberry) and […]

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Lorna Jowett and Stacey Abbott on ‘TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen’

October 23rd, 2013 | Posted in horror, television

I have had a long-time interest in horror on television, and have discussed specific aspects of it previously on this blog. With this post we take up the topic again, through an interview with Lorna Jowett and Stacy Abbott, authors of the wonderful volume TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (I.B. […]

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Monstrous Commercials

August 18th, 2013 | Posted in monsters, television, vampire, zombie
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TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen

July 2nd, 2013 | Posted in horror, television

I have just become aware of an interesting looking book by Lorna Jowett and Stacey Abbott titled TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (I.B. Tauris, 2013). From the description at Amazon.com: Horror is a universally popular, pervasive TV genre, with shows like True Blood, Being Human, The Walking Dead and American […]

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Tony Mills on “Buffyverse Fandom as Religion”

June 10th, 2013 | Posted in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, fan cultures, Joss Whedon, television

From time to time TheoFantastique explores aspects of fan cultures, and with this interview we talk to Tony Mills who discusses his contribution on the “Buffyverse Fandom as Religion” in Fan Phenomena: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, edited by Jennifer K. Stuller (University of Chicago Press, 2013). Tony Mills received a PhD in theology and culture […]

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