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    STUDIA DRAMATICA - Issue no. 1 / 2020  
         
  Article:   “SABRINA, YOU’RE NOT YOURSELF.” THE BORROWINGS OF SABRINA SPELLMAN.

Authors:  WILLEM DE BLÉCOURT.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbdrama.2020.1.11

Published Online: 2020-03-30
Published Print: 2020-03-30
pp. 227-244

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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.

Keywords: Sabrina Spellman, witchcraft, ChAoS series, sources, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, cultural borrowings.
 
         
     
         
         
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