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Television antiheroines : women behaving badly in crime and prison drama /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA :
Intellect,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Diana Negra and Jorie Lagerwey
- Part 1: Mafia Women. Godmothers in Italian Mafia Story: or, 'Something else besides a mother' / Milly Buonanno ; Mafiosa, monstruous beauty: power and loneliness of a female mob lover / Barbara Villez ; Adieu Carmela Soprano! Lessons from the HBO mobster wife on TV female agency and neo-liberal (narrative) power / Kim Akass and Janet McCabe
- Part 2: Drug Dealers and Aberrant Mothers. Paying the price: Penoza--combining motherhood and 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. Lotz ; La reina del sur: Teresa Mendoza, a new telenovela protagonist / Yeidy M. Rivero
- Part 3: Women in Prison. Blurred lines: the queer world of Bad Girls / Vicky Ball ; Top dogs and other freaks: Wentworth and the re-imaging of Prisoner Cell Block H / Sue Turnbull ; Lesbian request approved: sex, power and desire in Orange is the New Black / Suzanna Danuta Walters
- Part 4: Villainesses and Anti-antiheroines. Women and criminality in Brazilian telenovelas: Salve Jorge and human trafficking / Samantha Joyce and Antonio La Pastina ; 'Your turn, girl': The (im)possibility of African American antiheroines in The Wire / Bruce A. Williams and Andrea L. Press ; Taming pussytown: how post-feminism domesticated Underbelly: Razor / Leigh Redhead.