{"product_id":"the-new-female-antihero-the-disruptive-women-of-twenty-first-century-us-television-9780226816401","title":"The New Female Antihero: The Disruptive Women of Twenty-First-Century Us Television","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Female Antihero\u003c\/i\u003e examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman zoom in on a key figure in this transformation: the archetype of the female antihero. Far from the sunny, sincere, plucky persona once demanded of female characters, the new female antihero is often selfish and deeply unlikeable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this entertaining and insightful study, Hagelin and Silverman explore the meanings of this profound change in the role of women characters. In the dramas of the new millennium, they show, the female antihero is ambitious, conniving, even murderous; in comedies, she is self-centered, self-sabotaging, and anti-aspirational. Across genres, these female protagonists eschew the part of good girl or role model. In their rejection of social responsibility, female antiheroes thus represent a more profound threat to the status quo than do their male counterparts. From the devious schemers of \u003ci\u003eGame of Thrones\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Americans\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScandal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHomeland\u003c\/i\u003e, to the joyful failures of \u003ci\u003eGirls, Broad City, Insecure\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSMILF\u003c\/i\u003e, female antiheroes register a deep ambivalence about the promises of liberal feminism. They push back against the myth of the modern-day super-woman--she who \"has it all\"--and in so doing, they give us new ways of imagining women's lives in contemporary America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Hagelin\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English and director of women's and gender studies at the University of Colorado Denver. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eReel Vulnerability: Power, Pain, and Gender in Contemporary American Film and Television\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eGillian Silverman\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English and director of graduate studies at the University of Colorado Denver. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eBodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50381071057170,"sku":"9780226816401","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5b5e0e60-3d80-4c13-a440-3190195890f5.jpg?v=1728693106","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-new-female-antihero-the-disruptive-women-of-twenty-first-century-us-television-9780226816401","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}