Bibliograph

Chick TV, antiheroines and time unbound, Yael Levy

Type

Label

Chick TV, antiheroines and time unbound, Yael Levy

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Chick TV

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Yael Levy

Series statement

Television and popular culture

Sub title

antiheroines and time unbound

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

Classification