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The Anti-Heroine on Contemporary Television
Transgressive Women
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2020
Summary
In The Anti-Heroine on Contemporary Television: Transgressive Women, Molly Brost explores the various applications and definitions of the term anti-heroine, showing that it has been applied to a wide variety of female characters on television that have little in common beyond their failure to behave in morally “correct” and traditionally feminine ways. Rather than dismiss the term altogether, Brost employs the term to examine what types of behaviors and characteristics cause female characters to be labeled anti-heroines, how those qualities and behaviors differ from those that cause men to be labeled anti-heroes, and how the label reflects society’s attitudes toward and beliefs about women. Using popular television series such as Jessica Jones, Scandal, and The Good Place, Brost acknowledges the problematic nature of the term anti-heroine and uses it as a starting point to study the complex women on television, analyzing how the broadening spectrum of character types has allowed more nuanced portrayals of women’s lives on television.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-9672-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-9673-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
116
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 1 Jessica Jones Redefines the Action/Noir Heroine No access Pages 17 - 32
Chapter 2 Scandal’s Olivia Pope and The Good Place’s Eleanor Shellstrop Choose Good No access Pages 33 - 48
Chapter 3 Girls, Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, and the Question of Likability No access Pages 49 - 70
Chapter 4 UnREAL, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, You’re the Worst, and Mental Illness Stigma No access Pages 71 - 90
