Television Antiheroines

Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvMilly Buonanno,Italy) Buonanno, Milly (Sapienza University of Rome

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With a foreword by Diane Negra and Jorie Lagerway 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-03-15
Mått178 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor285
FörlagIntellect
ISBN9781783207602

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Part I: Mafia WomenBuonanno, Villez, Akass and McCabe Chapter 1: Godmothers in Italian Mafia Story: Or 'Something Else Besides a Mother'Milly Buonanno Chapter 2: Mafiosa, Monstruous Beauty: Power and Loneliness of a Female Mob Leader Barbara Villez Chapter 3: Adieu Carmela Soprano! Lessons from the HBO Mobster Wife on TV Female Agency and Neo-Liberal (Narrative) Power Kim Akass and Janet McCabe Part II: Drug Dealers and Aberrant Mothers Hermes, Giomi, Lotz and Rivero Paying the Price: Penoza – Combining Motherhood anf a Career (in Crime) Joke Hermes 'Really Good At It': The Viral Charge of Nancy Botwin in Weeds (and Popular Culture's Anticorps)Elisa Giomi Really Bad Mothers: Manipulative Matriarchs in Sons of Anarchy and Justified Amanda D. LotzLa reina del sur: Teresa Mendoza, a New Telenovela ProtagonistYeidy M. Rivero Part III: Women in PrisonBall, Turnball and Walters Chapter 8: Blurred Lines: The Queer World of Bad GirlsVicky Ball Chapter 9: Top Dogs and Other Freaks: Wentworth and the Re-imaging of Prisoner Cell Block HSue Turnball Chapter 10: Lesbian Request Approved: Sex, Power and Desire in Orange is the New Black Suzanna Danuta Walters Part IV: Villainesses and Anti-antiheroinesJoyce, La Pastina, Williams, Press and Redhead Chapter 11: Women and Criminality in Brazilian Telenovelas: Salve Jorge and Human Trafficking Samantha Joyce and Antonio Las Pastina 'Your Turn, Girl': The (Im)Possibility of African American Antiheroines in The WireBruce A. Williams and Andrea L. Press Taming Pussytown: How Post-feminism Domesticated Underbelly: RazorLeigh Redhead

'This vital collection profitably meditates on the intersections of crime studies, feminist and postfeminist studies and television studies, and shines a light on the expanding representational possibilities for women that are taking place in global television production. [...] I suspect that Television Antiheroines will enjoy widespread adoption as a text in a number of university courses for differing constituencies of students. The essays all feature clear and accessible prose and, further, the breadth and array of the texts, and detailed bibliography for each essay, will make the collection interesting for media studies scholars (feminist or otherwise) working on a spectrum of contexts.'