Antiheroines of Contemporary Media : Saints, Sinners, and Survivors /: Saints, Sinners, and Survivors. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Melanie Haas, N. A. Pierce, Gretchen Busl, Melanie Haas, N. A. Pierce, Henriette-Juliane Seeliger, Gretchen Busl, Tiara Sukhan, Brenda Boudreau, Lucinda Rasmussen, Melanie Piper, Louise Coopey, Kathleen Waites, Liz Evans, Stephanie Salerno, Anja Meyer, Siobhan Lyons.
• Editors: Haas, Melanie; Pierce, N. A; Busl, Gretchen
• Other Names: Haas, Melanie contributor.; Pierce, N. A contributor.; Seeliger, Henriette-Juliane contributor.; Busl, Gretchen contributor.; Sukhan, Tiara contributor.; Boudreau, Brenda contributor.; Rasmussen, Lucinda contributor.; Piper, Melanie contributor.; Coopey, Louise contributor.; Waites, Kathleen contributor.; Evans, Liz contributor.; Salerno, Stephanie contributor.; Meyer, Anja contributor.; Lyons, Siobhán contributor.
• Contents: Introduction Part I: Making a Mess of Motherhood 1. From “Basic Bitch” to “Boss Bitch”: Morality & Motherhood in NBC’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Good Girls – Henriette-Juliane Seeliger and Tiara Sukhan 2.Challenging Cultural Attitudes to Maternal Ambivalence through Antiheroines in <span style="font-style:italic;">The Americans and <span style="font-style:italic;"> 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. <span style="font-style:italic;">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 the Psychological Complexity of the Antiheroine in Contemporary Domestic Noir Fiction – Liz Evans 9.“Maybe She’s Not Such a Heinous Bitch After All”: Representations of the Antiheroine in <span style="font-style:italic;">Crazy Ex-Girlfriend – Stephanie Salerno 10.The Antiheroine and the Representation of PTSD: The Case of Jessica Jones – Anja Meyer 11.“Small-breasted Psycho”: Debunking the Female Psychopath in <span style="font-style:italic;">Killing Eve – Siobhan Lyons About the Editors and Contributors
• Publisher Details: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (242 pages)
• Subjects: Social Science: Media Studies; Social Science: Women's Studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781793624574; 1793624577
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.