Chick TV Antiheroines and Time Unbound - Television and Popular Culture

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 populatedtelevision 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.

ISBN:	9780815637387
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Imprint:	Syracuse University Press
Published date:	30 Mar 2022
DEWEY:	791.450973
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	vii, 179
Weight:	442g
Height:	237mm
Width:	160mm
Spine width:	20mm

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