Book Chat with Heather Greene

Dear book lovers this month we are lucky to have Heather Greene join us on the 28th of October 2026 at 7pm

She will be discussing herbook "Light, Camera, Witchcraft; A Critical History of Witchesin American film and television.

Winner of a 2022 gold COVR award!

The witch as a cultural archetype has existed in some form since the beginning of recorded history. Her nature had changed through technological developments and sociocultural shifts.

The award-winning book Lights, Camera, Witchcraft traces the figure of the witch through American cinematic history from 1896 to 2020 with an analysis of the entertainment industry's shifting boundaries concerning expressions of femininity. Focusing on films and television series from Bewitched to The Craft, the book looks at how the witch reflects changing gender roles, religion, the modern practice of witchcraft, and female agency.

Heather Greene, M.A. is an editor, journalist and film historian based in Atlanta, Georgia.She is the author of the award winning book Lights, Camera, Witchcraft: A Critical History of Witches in American Film and Television.She currently works as acquisitions editor with Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. Her articles have been published at, amongst others, Religion News Service, Religion Unplugged, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press.

She is also co-founder and serves on the board of the Mystic South Conference and former managing editor of The Wild Hunt.

Her interests are strongly focused on the crossroads of pop culture, religion, politics, and the occult. She has a B.A. in Film Studies from the Wesleyan University and an M.A. in Film Studies from Emory University. She also is a 3rd degree initiate within the Phoenix Tradition, a Wiccan grove in Atlanta. When she gets a few quiet moments, she can be found in her studio restoring dolls, sipping tea on the back porch, or tending to her two very needy cats.