UID:
almahu_9949481470702882
Umfang:
1 online resource (288 p.) :
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36 halftones
ISBN:
9780226816364
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9783110992809
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Prologue --
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Introduction: The New Female Antihero-The What, the Why, the How --
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Part I: Ambition TV --
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1 The Limits of the Female Antihero in Game of Thrones --
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2 The Impossibility of the Marriage Plot in The Americans --
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3 Scandal and the Failure of Postracial Fantasy --
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4 Homeland and the Rejection of the Domestic Plot --
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Part II: Shame TV --
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5 Feminist Anti-Aspirationalism in Girls --
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6 Liberation and Whiteness in Broad City --
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7 The Difference That Race Makes in Insecure --
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8 Working-Class Identity and Matriarchal Community in SMILF --
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Epilogue --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110992809
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EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
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University of Chicago Complete eBook-Package 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110739190
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University of Chicago Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766509
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780226816357
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Allgemeines
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780226816364
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