Television antiheroines : women behaving badly in crime and prison drama
Milly Buonanno, editor
Bok · Engelsk · 2017
| Omfang | XIII, 295 sider
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| Opplysninger | Foreword / Diane Negra and Jorie Lagerwey -- Editor's introduction / Milly Buonanno -- Part I. Mafia women. Godmothers in Italian Mafia Story : or 'something else besides a mother' / Milly Buonanno -- Mafiosa, monstruous beauty : power and loneliness of a female mob leader / 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 -- Part II. Drug dealers and aberrant mothers. 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 -- Part III. Women in prison. 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 -- Part IV. Villainesses and anti-antiheroines. 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
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| ISBN | 9781783207602
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