Vol. 26 No. 5 (2023): magic

Image by Dollar Gill on Unsplash

Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Angelique Nairn
Image by Dollar Gill on Unsplash

Published: 2023-10-02
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Editorial

  • The Magic of Media and Culture

    Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Angelique Nairn

Feature

  • The Power of Chaos Exploring Magic, Gender, and Agency in Netflix’s The Witcher

    Angelique Nairn, Lorna Piatti-Farnell

Articles

  • Conjuring Up a King The Use of Magic and Ritual in the Coronation of King Charles III

    Lisa J. Hackett, Jo Coghlan

  • “You Know There’s No ‘It’ Right? ‘It’ Was Just Us” Magic as a Tool for Audience Empathy in Yellowjackets

    Alexander Hudson Beare, Amy Brierley-Beare

  • "I Love Every Part of You" Curse as Disability in Disney's The Owl House

    Chloe T. Rattray, Katie Ellis

  • Magic and Spells in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

    Louise Child

  • The Transformative Magic of Education in Walt Disney’s The Sword in the Stone

    Brennan Thomas

  • Climate Change as Dark Magic in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir Animation

    Andre Vasques Vital, Mariza Pinheiro Bezerra

  • Magic and Metamodernism

    Shaun Wilson

  • Mzansi Magic “Jerusalema” as Redemptive Culture

    Martina Viljoen

  • Making It Magical Outlining Dialectic Interactions between Construction Decisions and Pagan Beliefs in a Bespoke Frame Drum Commission

    Will Connor

  • Music as Magic Breaking and Recasting the Spell of Live Music in Naarm/Melbourne

    Shelley Brunt, Mike Callander, Sebastian Diaz-Gasca, Tami Gadir, Ian Rogers, Catherine Strong

  • Metamodern Spell Casting The Blockchain as a Conceptual Medium for Contemporary Visual Artists

    Sue Beyer

  • Art Is Magic The Conjuring and Mediated Deception of The Paradise Institute and Binaural Walks

    Alex Davies, Alexandra Lara Crosby

  • Just an Illusion? The Politics of the Magic Trick

    Saša Miletić

  • ChatGPT Isn't Magic The Hype and Hypocrisy of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Rhetoric

    Tama Leaver, Suzanne Srdarov