Chick TV (eBook)

Antiheroines and Time Unbound

Yael Levy (Autor)

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2022
Syracuse University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8156-5525-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Tony Soprano, Don Draper, and Walter White ushered in the era of the television antihero, with compelling narratives and complex characters. While critics and academics celebrated these characters, the antiheroines who populated television screens in the twenty-first century were pushed to the margins and dismissed as "chick TV."

In this volume, Yael Levy advances antiheroines to the forefront of television criticism, revealing the varied and subtle ways in which they perform feminist resistance. Offering a retooling of gendered media analyses, Levy finds antiheroism not only in the morally questionable cop and tormented lawyer, but also in the housewife and nurse who inhabit more stereotypical feminine roles. By analyzing Girls, Desperate Housewives, Nurse Jackie, Being Mary Jane, Grey’s Anatomy, Six Feet Under, Sister Wives, and the Real Housewives franchise, Levy explores the narrative complexities of "chick TV" and the radical feminist potential of these shows.

Autor

Yael Levy is a teaching fellow at the Tisch School of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University, where she teaches courses in television studies, race, and feminist theories. Her works have appeared in Feminist Media Studies and Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, among others.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Television and Popular Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Television and Popular Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 1 black and white
• Verlagsort: Syracuse
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: 20th century culture • ABC • antiheroines • Being Mary Jane • Bravo • Breaking Bad • Cable Television • Chick Flicks • Comedy • contemporary television • damages • daytime soaps • Desperate Housewives • ethics • gendered entertainment • Genre • Girls • Grey's Anatomy • HBO • Homeland • How to get away with murder • Killing Eve • Mad Men • Melodrama • misogyny • network television • nightime soaps • Nurse Jackie • Orange is the new black • Orphan Black • popular culture • Real Housewives • Reality Television • saving grace • scandal • Sharp Objects • Showtime • Sister Wives • Six Feet Under • soap operas • television and popular culture • television criticism • The Closer • The Good Wife • The Handmaid's Tale • The Sopranos • TLC • westworld • Women's and Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-8156-5525-8 / 0815655258
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-5525-1 / 9780815655251