Bad girls and transgressive women in popular television, fiction, and film. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Julie A. Chappell, Mallory Young, editors.
• Editors: Young, Mallory, 1952-; Chappell, Julie, 1950-
• Contents: 1.Introduction -- Mallory Young -- 2."How do you like my darkness now?": Women, Violence, and the Good 'Bad Girl' in Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- Kaley A. Kramer -- 3. Hollywood's Warrior Woman for the New Millennium -- Kate Waites -- 4. Reading Kathleen Mallory: Trauma and Survival in the Detective Fiction of Carol O'Connell -- Kathleen A. Kennedy -- 5. Vera Caspary's Bedelia: Murder as a Domestic Art, or Lethal Home Economics -- Kirsten T. Saxton -- 6. The Dirty Secret: Domestic Disarray in Chick Lit -- Joanne Knowles -- 7. Good Teachers, Bad Teachers, and Comedic Performance in Popular American Cinema -- Joel Gwynne -- 8. Mean Girls End Up Dead: The Dismal Fate of Teen Queen Bees in Popular Culture -- Sara K. Day -- 9. Bad Girl, Bad Mother, Bad Queen: Catherine de' Medici in Contemporary Fiction, Film, and History -- William B. Robison -- 10. "Let Them Know That Men Did This": Medusa, Rape, and Female Rivalry in Contemporary Film and Women's Writing -- Elizabeth Johnston -- 11. At the Crossroads: Carnival, Hybridity, Legendary Womanhood in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber -- N.A. Pierce -- 12. Just Another Monster: Michonne's Defiance in The Walking Dead -- Samaa Abdurraqib -- 13. Bad Girls in Outer Space: Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga and the Graphic Representation of Subversive Femininity -- Mihaela Precup and Dragoş Manea.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 289 pages), color illustrations
• Subjects: 305.42; Women in popular culture; Feminism; Culture; Gender; Popular Culture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies; Feminism; Women in popular culture; Massenkultur; Literatur; Film; Frauenbild; Social Science -- Popular Culture; Social Science -- General; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; Popular culture; Cultural studies; Films, cinema; Literary studies: from c 1900; Social Science -- Gender Studies; USA; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319472591; 3319472593
• Related ISBNs: 9783319472584; 3319472585
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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