Television antiheroines : women behaving badly in crime and prison drama /: women behaving badly in crime and prison drama. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Milly Buonanno, editor.
• Editors: Buonanno, Milly
• Other Names: Buonanno, Milly contributor.
• Contents: 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Intellect
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (295 pages)
• Subjects: 791.45/6522; Women on television; Antiheroes on television; Television crime shows -- History and criticism; Antiheroes on television; Television crime shows; Women on television; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783207626; 1783207620
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