The New Female Antihero
The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century Us Television
$93.24
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
10 February 2022
Summary
The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television.
The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman zoom in on a key figure in this transformation: the archetype of the female antihero. Far from the sunny, sincere, plucky persona once demanded of female characters, the ne…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226816401 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0226816400 |
| Author: | Sarah Hagelin, Gillian Silverman |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 10 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 416g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“Hagelin and Silverman adeptly analyze a set of highly regarded, well-watched, and much talked about television series, setting a high standard of originality, soundness, and rigor throughout. It is difficult to write about television as clearly, effectively and efficiently as they do here.”– “Diane Negra, University College Dublin” “If you love television’s bad women more than you should, you’ll love The New Female Antihero, which opens up this topic in exciting and original ways. Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman rethink this edgy character through race as well as gender, upping the stakes on why television’s transgressive women are important. By including the hit comedies Broad City and Girls alongside series about killers and assassins, Hagelin and Silverman reveal the larger implications of these unruly women as threats to traditional femininity. You’ll never watch TV’s difficult women in quite the same way again.”– “Linda Mizejewski, Ohio State University”
Sarah Hagelin
Sarah Hagelin is associate professor of English and director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado Denver. She is the author of Reel Vulnerability: Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television.
Gillian Silverman is associate professor of English and director of graduate studies at the University of Colorado Denver. She is the author of Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America.
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