Television Antiheroines Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama 1st Edition by Milly Buonanno ISBN B06Y484KJ7 978-1783207626

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ISBN 10: B06Y484KJ7
ISBN 13: 978-1783207626
Author: Milly Buonanno 

With a foreword by Diane Negra and Jorie Lagerway

As television has finally started to create more leading roles for women, the female antiheroine has emerged as a compelling and dynamic character type. Television Antiheroines looks closely at this recent development, exploring the emergence of women characters in roles typically reserved for men, particularly in the male-dominated genre of the crime and prison drama.

The essays collected in Television Antiheroines are divided into four sections or types of characters: mafia women, drug dealers and aberrant mothers, women in prison, and villainesses. Looking specifically at shows such as Gomorrah, Mafiosa, The Wire, The Sopranos, Sons of Anarchy, Orange is the New Black, and Antimafia Squad, the contributors explore the role of race and sexuality and focus on how many of the characters transgress traditional ideas about femininity and female identity, such as motherhood. They examine the ways in which bad women are portrayed and how these characters undermine gender expectations and reveal the current challenges by women to social and economic norms. Television Antiheroines will be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in crime and prison drama and the rising prominence of women in nontraditional roles.

Television Antiheroines Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Mafia Women

Chapter 1: Godmothers in Italian Mafia Story: Or ‘Something Else Besides a Mother’

Chapter 2: Mafiosa, Monstruous Beauty: Power and Loneliness of a Female Mob Leader

Chapter 3: Adieu Carmela Soprano! Lessons from the HBO Mobster Wife on TV Female Agency and Neo-liberal (Narrative) Power

Part II: Drug Dealers and Aberrant Mothers

Chapter 4: Paying the Price: Penoza – Combining Motherhood and a Career (in Crime)

Chapter 5: ‘Really Good At It’: The Viral Charge of Nancy Botwin in Weeds (and Popular Culture’s Anticorps)

Chapter 6: Really Bad Mothers: Manipulative Matriarchs in Sons of Anarchy and Justified

Chapter 7: La reina del sur: Teresa Mendoza, a New Telenovela Protagonist

Part III: Women in Prison

Chapter 8: Blurred Lines: The Queer World of Bad Girls

Chapter 9: Top Dogs and Other Freaks: Wentworth and the Re-imaging of Prisoner Cell Block H

Chapter 10: Lesbian Request Approved: Sex, Power and Desire in Orange is the New Black

Part IV: Villainesses and Anti-antiheroines

Chapter 11: Women and Criminality in Brazilian Telenovelas: Salve Jorge and Human Trafficking

Chapter 12: ‘Your Turn, Girl’: The (Im)Possibility of African American Antiheroines in The Wire

Chapter 13: Taming Pussytown: How Post-feminism Domesticated Underbelly: Razor

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