Television Antiheroines

Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama

Buch | Softcover

285 Seiten

2017
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78320-760-2 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on the emergence of female characters in typically male roles, particularly in the crime and prison drama genres. Contributors explore the role of race and sexuality, focusing on the transgression of female identity, and examine how bad women are portrayed and how they reveal the challenges by women to social and economic norms.

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.

Milly Buonanno is professor benemerita at La Sapienza University of Roma and director of the Observatory of Italian TV Drama.

Part I: Mafia Women

Buonanno, 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. Lotz
La reina del sur: Teresa Mendoza, a New Telenovela Protagonist

Yeidy M. Rivero

Part III: Women in Prison

Ball, Turnball and Walters

Chapter 8: Blurred Lines: The Queer World of Bad Girls

Vicky Ball

Chapter 9: Top Dogs and Other Freaks: Wentworth and the Re-imaging of Prisoner Cell Block H

Sue Turnball

Chapter 10: Lesbian Request Approved: Sex, Power and Desire in Orange is the New Black

Suzanna Danuta Walters

Part IV: Villainesses and Anti-antiheroines

Joyce, 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 Wire

Bruce A. Williams and Andrea L. Press

Taming Pussytown: How Post-feminism Domesticated Underbelly: Razor

Leigh Redhead

Erscheinungsdatum	27.01.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-78320-760-4 / 1783207604
ISBN-13	978-1-78320-760-2 / 9781783207602
Zustand	Neuware