Graduate student researchers in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program at Queen's University share their research on the figure of the witch in media.
Emily Sanders explores the figure of the witch as adjacent to the werewolf, employing the theoretical lens of the abject through looking at John Fawcett’s 2000 Canadian horror film, Ginger Snaps.
Darby Huk examines the various depictions of witchcraft and magic in the 2016 CD Projekt Red video game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, focusing on the state-sanctioned burning and persecution of magic users in Wild Hunt’s fictional city of Novigrad.
Peggy Fussell presents Witch Hole, an animation-in-progress, loosely based on an 1895 newspaper article about a boy who was remanded to a "pest house", a 19th century quarantine location for typhoid fever patients on Mt. Desert Island, Maine. This work reflects on the ways that stories and folktales about witches are some of the earliest forms of othering, exploring how “bad actors” are portrayed in children’s media.
Please Note: this event will be recorded.
Graduate student researchers in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies program at Queen's University share their research on the figure of the witch in media.
Emily Sanders explores the figure of the witch as adjacent to the werewolf, employing the theoretical lens of the abject through looking at John Fawcett’s 2000 Canadian horror film, Ginger Snaps.
Darby Huk examines the various depictions of witchcraft and magic in the 2016 CD Projekt Red video game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, focusing on the state-sanctioned burning and persecution of magic users in Wild Hunt’s fictional city of Novigrad.
Peggy Fussell presents Witch Hole, an animation-in-progress, loosely based on an 1895 newspaper article about a boy who was remanded to a "pest house", a 19th century quarantine location for typhoid fever patients on Mt. Desert Island, Maine. This work reflects on the ways that stories and folktales about witches are some of the earliest forms of othering, exploring how “bad actors” are portrayed in children’s media.
Please Note: this event will be recorded.