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The New Female Antihero

Author : Sarah Hagelin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226816362
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The New Female Antihero written by Sarah Hagelin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 new female antihero is often selfish and deeply unlikeable. In this entertaining and insightful study, Hagelin and Silverman explore the meanings of this profound change in the role of women characters. In the dramas of the new millennium, they show, the female antihero is ambitious, conniving, even murderous; in comedies, she is self-centered, self-sabotaging, and anti-aspirational. Across genres, these female protagonists eschew the part of good girl or role model. In their rejection of social responsibility, female antiheroes thus represent a more profound threat to the status quo than do their male counterparts. From the devious schemers of Game of Thrones, The Americans, Scandal, and Homeland, to the joyful failures of Girls, Broad City, Insecure, and SMILF, female antiheroes register a deep ambivalence about the promises of liberal feminism. They push back against the myth of the modern-day super-woman—she who “has it all”—and in so doing, they give us new ways of imagining women’s lives in contemporary America.

The New Female Antihero

Author : Sarah Hagelin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226816400
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The New Female Antihero written by Sarah Hagelin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Hagelin and Silverman zoom in on a key figure in this transformation: the archetype of the female antihero. Across genres, these female protagonists eschew the part of good girl or role model in their rejection of social responsibility

Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040014313
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture written by Simon Bacon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books. These contemporary ‘final’ girls do not just survive but rather suggest that in doing so they have fundamentally changed something about themselves and or the world around them, seeing them become the ‘First Girls’ of this altered reality. The collection brings together a wide range of perspectives and cultural viewpoints that describe many recent narratives that explore the idea of a Final Girl and her “after-story”. The essays are divided into four sections, beginning with more theoretical approaches; cross-cultural examples; the ways in which fictional narratives bear strong relation to real-world circumstances; examples that more strongly depict themes of resistance, survival, and individual agency; and, finally, those that describe something more fundamental and transformative. Films and television shows covered in the collection include The Girl with All the Gifts, The Witcher, The Hunger Games, Star Wars, The Fear Street and Pan’s Labyrinth. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of film studies, gender studies, and media studies.

Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring 2023)

Author :
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476651639
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring 2023) written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Monstrous Possibilities

Author : Amanda Howell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031128443
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Monstrous Possibilities written by Amanda Howell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on how the abject spectacle of the ‘monstrous feminine’ has been reimagined by recent and contemporary screen horrors focused on the desires and subjectivities of female monsters who, as anti-heroic protagonists of revisionist and reflexive texts, exemplify gendered possibility in altered cultures of 21st century screen production and reception. As Barbara Creed notes in a recent interview, the patriarchal stereotype of horror that she named ‘the monstrous-feminine’ has, decades later, ‘embarked on a life of her own’. Focused on this altered and renewed form of female monstrosity, this study engages with an international array of recent and contemporary screen entertainments, from arthouse and indie horror films by emergent female auteurs, to the franchised products of multimedia conglomerates, to 'quality' television horror, to the social media-based creations of horror fans working as ‘pro-sumers’. In this way, the monograph in its organisation and scope maps the converged and rapidly changing environment of 21st century screen cultures in order to situate the monstrous female anti-hero as one of its distinctive products.

The Anti-Heroine on Contemporary Television

Author : Molly J. Brost
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498596738
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Anti-Heroine on Contemporary Television written by Molly J. Brost and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Anti-Heroine on Contemporary Television: Transgressive Women, Molly Brost explores the various applications and definitions of the term anti-heroine, showing that it has been applied to a wide variety of female characters on television that have little in common beyond their failure to behave in morally “correct” and traditionally feminine ways. Rather than dismiss the term altogether, Brost employs the term to examine what types of behaviors and characteristics cause female characters to be labeled anti-heroines, how those qualities and behaviors differ from those that cause men to be labeled anti-heroes, and how the label reflects society’s attitudes toward and beliefs about women. Using popular television series such as Jessica Jones, Scandal, and The Good Place, Brost acknowledges the problematic nature of the term anti-heroine and uses it as a starting point to study the complex women on television, analyzing how the broadening spectrum of character types has allowed more nuanced portrayals of women’s lives on television.

Leo McCarey and the Comic Anti-hero in American Film

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leo McCarey and the Comic Anti-hero in American Film written by Wes D. Gehring and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Television Antiheroines

Author : Milly Buonanno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783207619
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Television Antiheroines written by Milly Buonanno and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As television has finally started to create more leading roles for women, the female antiheroine has emerged as a compelling and dynamic character type. Television Antiheroines looks closely at this recent development, exploring the emergence of women characters in roles typically reserved for men, particularly in the male-dominated genre of the crime and prison drama. The essays collected in Television Antiheroines are divided into four sections or types of characters: mafia women, drug dealers and aberrant mothers, women in prison, and villainesses. Looking specifically at shows such as Gomorrah, Mafiosa, The Wire, The Sopranos, Sons of Anarchy, Orange is the New Black, and Antimafia Squad, the contributors explore the role of race and sexuality and focus on how many of the characters transgress traditional ideas about femininity and female identity, such as motherhood. They examine the ways in which bad women are portrayed and how these characters undermine gender expectations and reveal the current challenges by women to social and economic norms. Television Antiheroines will be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in crime and prison drama and the rising prominence of women in nontraditional roles."--Provided by publisher.

Our Selection On: Writings on Cinemas' Histories

Author : Jeff Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Our Selection On: Writings on Cinemas' Histories written by Jeff Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rise of the Anti-heroine in TV's Third Golden Age

Author : Margaret Tally
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781443899369
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Anti-heroine in TV's Third Golden Age written by Margaret Tally and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume offers a stimulating perspective on the status of representations of a new kind of female character who emerged on the scene on US television in the mid-2000s, that of the anti-heroine. This new figure rivaled her earlier counterpart, the anti-hero, in terms of her complexity, and was multi-layered and morally flawed. Looking at the cable channels Showtime and HBO, as well as Netflix and ABC Television, this volume examines a range of recent television women and shows, including Homeland, Weeds, Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder, Veep, Girls, and Orange is the New Black as well as a host of other nighttime programs to demonstrate just how dominant the anti-heroine has become on US television. It examines how the figure has arisen within the larger context of the turn towards "Quality Television", that has itself been viewed as part of the post-network era or the "Third Golden Age" of television where new forms of broadcast delivery have created a marketing incentive to deliver more compelling characters to niche audiences. By including an exploration of the historical circumstances, as well as the industrial context in which the anti-heroine became the dominant leading female character on nighttime television, the book offers a fascinating study that sits at the intersection of gender studies and television. As such, it will appeal to scholars of popular culture, sociology, cultural and media studies.

Hero and Anti-hero in the American Football Novel

Author : Donald L. Deardorff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hero and Anti-hero in the American Football Novel written by Donald L. Deardorff and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the rise and evolution of the football narrative, from 1870 to the present, in order to analyse and define the process by which American men have sought to fashion masculine identity over the last century. The author uses the athletic hero as a representative of a larger number of templates or centers (the religious man, the business tycoon, the family man, the rebel, etc.), many of which have been used by various men to make meaning of their lives.

Democratic Women

Author : Maria Van Liew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Democratic Women written by Maria Van Liew and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Screwball Comedy

Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screwball Comedy written by Wes D. Gehring and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1986-02-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heroes and Heritage

Author : Th Damsteegt
Publisher : Leiden University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Heroes and Heritage written by Th Damsteegt and published by Leiden University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the role of the protagonist is central to text interpretation. Providing examples of such analyses, the fourteen articles in this volume deal with the protagonist in mainly 20th century North Indian films and literary texts. Basically, they aim to answer two questions: what techniques have been used by the author (or director) to present a specific protagonist, and what ideas or even ideology may have inspired the author to create that character. The latter question, concerning the view of life or society that has consciously or unconsciously influenced the creator of a South Asian text or film, has occasionally been investigated in the past, too, but here answers are argued on the basis of an analysis of narrative techniques rather than an intuitive approach. Besides a historical survey of protagonists in 20th century Hindi literature, this volume offers detailed discussions of a wide variety of 'heroes' - among them children, aged men, courtesans, women fighting for Independence, and Urdu poets. The literary texts analysed here belong to various genres (novel, short story, drama, poetry), and the papers demonstrate several analytical methods, such as narratology, film analysis, feminist literary analysis, and postcolonial studies.

Worlding Murieta

Author : Colleen Marie Tripp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Worlding Murieta written by Colleen Marie Tripp and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Anti-hero

Author : Lilian R. Furst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Anti-hero written by Lilian R. Furst and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reel Women

Author : Jane Sloan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Reel Women written by Jane Sloan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reel Women assembles an impressive list of more than 2,400 films that feature female protagonists. Each entry includes a brief description of the film and cites key artistic personnel, particularly female directors, producers, and screenwriters involved in its production.