Antiheroines of Contemporary Media
Saints, Sinners, and Survivors
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 2. December 2020
232 pages
978-1-9787-5512-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume of essays provides a critical foray into the methods used to construct narratives which foreground antiheroines, a trope which has become increasingly popular within literary media, film, and television. Antiheroine characters engage constructions of motherhood, womanhood, femininity, and selfhood as mediated by the structures that socially prescribe boundaries of gender, sex, and sexuality. Within this collection, scholars of literary, cultural, media, and gender studies address the complications of representing agency, autonomy, and self-determination within narrative texts complicated by age, class, race, sexuality, and a spectrum of privilege that reflects the complexities of scripting women on and off screen, within and beyond the page. This collection offers perspectives on the alternate narratives engendered through the motivations, actions, and agendas of the antiheroine, while engaging with the discourses of how such narratives are employed both as potentially feminist interventions and critiques of access, hierarchy, and power.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-5512-3 (9781978755123)
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Melanie Haas | N. A. Pierce | Gretchen Busl
Antiheroines of Contemporary Media
Saints, Sinners, and Survivors
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08/2022
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Persons
Melanie Haas is chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Southeast Arkansas College and is completing her PhD in Rhetoric at Texas Woman's University.
N.A. Pierce is completing her PhD in English Literature at Old Dominion University.
Gretchen Busl is associate professor and graduate program coordinator in the Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages at Texas Woman's University.
N.A. Pierce is completing her PhD in English Literature at Old Dominion University.
Gretchen Busl is associate professor and graduate program coordinator in the Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages at Texas Woman's University.
Content
Introduction
Part I: Making a Mess of Motherhood
1. From "Basic Bitch" to "Boss Bitch": Morality & Motherhood in NBC's Good Girls - Henriette-Juliane Seeliger and Tiara Sukhan
2. Challenging Cultural Attitudes to Maternal Ambivalence through Antiheroines in The Americans and Homeland - Brenda Boudreau
3. Tracking the Relationships between Post-feminism, Representations of Ageing Women, and the Rise of Popular Misogyny as Portrayed in FX's Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014) - Lucinda Rasmussen
4. "As Bad as Him": Reframing Skyler White as the Overlooked Antiheroine - Melanie Piper
Part II: Women to Watch (Out For)
5. The Other's Hero: The Importance of Annalise Keating and Olivia Pope as Black Antiheroines - Melanie Haas
6. Where the Streets Have No Shame: Queen Cersei Lannister's Journey to Alternative Patriarchy - Louise Coopey
7. Killing Eve and the Necessity of the Female Villain du Jour - Kathleen Waites
Part III: Crazy is a Sexist Word
8. Rewriting the Psycho Bitch: Exploring
Part I: Making a Mess of Motherhood
1. From "Basic Bitch" to "Boss Bitch": Morality & Motherhood in NBC's Good Girls - Henriette-Juliane Seeliger and Tiara Sukhan
2. Challenging Cultural Attitudes to Maternal Ambivalence through Antiheroines in The Americans and Homeland - Brenda Boudreau
3. Tracking the Relationships between Post-feminism, Representations of Ageing Women, and the Rise of Popular Misogyny as Portrayed in FX's Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014) - Lucinda Rasmussen
4. "As Bad as Him": Reframing Skyler White as the Overlooked Antiheroine - Melanie Piper
Part II: Women to Watch (Out For)
5. The Other's Hero: The Importance of Annalise Keating and Olivia Pope as Black Antiheroines - Melanie Haas
6. Where the Streets Have No Shame: Queen Cersei Lannister's Journey to Alternative Patriarchy - Louise Coopey
7. Killing Eve and the Necessity of the Female Villain du Jour - Kathleen Waites
Part III: Crazy is a Sexist Word
8. Rewriting the Psycho Bitch: Exploring
