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Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound

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Availability:In StockContributor:Yael LevySeries:Television and Popular CulturePublish date:2022-03-14Pages:200
Language:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815637240ISBN-10:815637241UPC:9780815637240Book Category:Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Television, Gender StudiesBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCRB9N4P18

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Syracuse University PressISBN-13:9780815637240ISBN-10:815637241UPC:9780815637240Book Category:Performing Arts, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Television, Gender StudiesBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCRB9N4P18
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.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press

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