Description
About the Author
Sarah Hagelin is associate professor of English and director of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado Denver. She is the author of Reel Vulnerability: Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television. Gillian Silverman is associate professor of English and director of graduate studies at the University of Colorado Denver. She is the author of Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America.
Reviews
"Hagelin and Silverman adeptly analyze a set of highly regarded, well-watched, and much talked about television series, setting a high standard of originality, soundness, and rigor throughout. It is difficult to write about television as clearly, effectively and efficiently as they do here."-- "Diane Negra, University College Dublin" "If you love television's bad women more than you should, you'll love The New Female Antihero, which opens up this topic in exciting and original ways. Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman rethink this edgy character through race as well as gender, upping the stakes on why television's transgressive women are important. By including the hit comedies Broad City and Girls alongside series about killers and assassins, Hagelin and Silverman reveal the larger implications of these unruly women as threats to traditional femininity. You'll never watch TV's difficult women in quite the same way again."-- "Linda Mizejewski, Ohio State University"
Book Information
ISBN 9780226816401
Author Sarah Hagelin
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint University of Chicago Press
Publisher The University of Chicago Press