“Sabrina, you’re not yourself.” The Borrowings of Sabrina Spellman
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbdrama.2020.1.11Keywords:
Sabrina Spellman, witchcraft, ChAoS series, sources, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, cultural borrowings.Abstract
This article examines the contradiction between shallowness and silliness in the television series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina from the perspective of creative piracy. I argue that the show adopted the superficiality of the 1960s comics. Despite substantial hijacking of elements from series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer or a movie Something Wicked This Way Comes the writers failed to lift this new Sabrina to a better quality. The borrowed elements simply made it more chaotic.
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