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The New Female Antihero
The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century Us Television
Taschenbuch von Gillian Silverman (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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"The last ten years have presented television viewers with a host of female characters the likes of which we've never seen before. Selfish, vengeful, and often deeply unlikeable, they fly in the face of our expectations for women. In The New Female Antihero, Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman probe the stories of female protagonists who eschew aspirations for a career, marriage, and children, swerving instead toward utter apathy, at one end of the spectrum, or unadulterated power at the other. From the bloodthirsty queens of Game of Thrones, The Americans, Scandal, and Homeland to the shrugging failures of Girls, Broad City, Insecure, and SMILF, female antiheroes register a deep ambivalence about the promises of liberal feminism in contemporary America. As Hagelin and Silverman show, their narratives of ruthlessness, insanity, hedonism, and precarity call into question both the possibility and the desirability of the "good life" their forebears achieved through entitlement, pluck, and leaning in"--
"The last ten years have presented television viewers with a host of female characters the likes of which we've never seen before. Selfish, vengeful, and often deeply unlikeable, they fly in the face of our expectations for women. In The New Female Antihero, Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman probe the stories of female protagonists who eschew aspirations for a career, marriage, and children, swerving instead toward utter apathy, at one end of the spectrum, or unadulterated power at the other. From the bloodthirsty queens of Game of Thrones, The Americans, Scandal, and Homeland to the shrugging failures of Girls, Broad City, Insecure, and SMILF, female antiheroes register a deep ambivalence about the promises of liberal feminism in contemporary America. As Hagelin and Silverman show, their narratives of ruthlessness, insanity, hedonism, and precarity call into question both the possibility and the desirability of the "good life" their forebears achieved through entitlement, pluck, and leaning in"--
Über den Autor
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.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 288
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226816401
ISBN-10: 0226816400
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Silverman, Gillian
Hagelin, Sarah
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Gillian Silverman (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.01.2022
Gewicht: 0,416 kg
preigu-id: 120235790
Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 288
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226816401
ISBN-10: 0226816400
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Silverman, Gillian
Hagelin, Sarah
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Gillian Silverman (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.01.2022
Gewicht: 0,416 kg
preigu-id: 120235790
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