The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century Us Television by Hagelin, Sarah
The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century Us Television by Hagelin, Sarah

The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century Us Television

The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television. The...
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The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century Us Television by Hagelin, Sarah

The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century Us Television

$521.60
The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century Us Television by Hagelin, Sarah

The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century Us Television

$521.60
Author: Sarah Hagelin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Sarah Hagelin, Gillian Silverman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 02/10/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.91w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780226816401


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/15/2021 pg. 21
Library Journal 01/01/2022 pg. 65
Choice 11/01/2022

About the Author
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. Gillian Silverman is associate professor of English and director of graduate studies at the University of Colorado Denver. She is the author of Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America.
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