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Book SynopsisThe New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television.
Trade Review"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"
Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction: The New Female Antihero—The What, the Why, the How Part 1: Ambition TV 1. The Limits of the Female Antihero in Game of Thrones 2. The Impossibility of the Marriage Plot in The Americans 3. Scandal and the Failure of Postracial Fantasy 4. Homeland and the Rejection of the Domestic Plot Part 2: Shame TV 5. Feminist Anti-Aspirationalism in Girls 6. Liberation and Whiteness in Broad City 7. The Difference That Race Makes in Insecure 8. Working-Class Identity and Matriarchal Community in SMILF Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index
