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I Just Wanna be a Woman: Music of The Craft 

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Still from The Craft (1996, directed by Andrew Fleming): four young fem presenting people are framed by a bus door. Behind them is a field. The person in the center of the frame has a snake loosely around her neck and a speech bubble that reads, “I just wanna be a woman.”

|Nicole Rojas-Oltmanns| “Now is the time, now is the hour, ours is the magic, ours is the power.” The first lines of The Craft (1996, directed by Andrew Fleming) focus us on the goal of the film’s creators, empowerment. Instead of a cute coming-of-age drama, we get sexism, racism, classism, depression, addiction, sexual assault, and… Continue reading

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Loving and Cruel: The Craft and the Mean Streak in 90s Teen Movies

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Four teenage girls stand in front of a painted wall.

|Andrew Neill| True magic is neither black nor white. It’s both because nature is both. Loving and cruel all at the same time. This line, spoken by Assumpta Serna as the enigmatic shopkeeper Lirio, may be explicitly about magic and nature, but it extends to the central focus of the movie around it… Continue reading