内容简介：
As television has finally started to create more
leading roles for women, the female antiheroine has
emerged as a compelling and dynamic character
type. Television Antiheroines looks closely at this
recent development, exploring the emergence of
women characters in roles typically reserved for
men, particularly in the male-dominated genre of
the crime and prison drama.
The essays collected in Television Antiheroines are
divided into four sections or types of characters:
mafia women, drug dealers and aberrant mothers,
women in prison, and villainesses. Looking
specifically at shows such as Gomorrah, Mafiosa,
The Wire, The Sopranos, Sons of Anarchy,
Orange is the New Black and Antimafia Squad,
the contributors explore the role of race and
sexuality and focus on how many of the characters
transgress traditional ideas about femininity
and female identity. They examine the ways in
which bad women are portrayed and how these
characters undermine gender expectations and
reveal the current challenges by women to social
and economic norms.
作者简介：
Milly Buonanno is professor benemerita at
La Sapienza University of Rome and director
of the Observatory of Italian TV Drama. Her
books include Italian TV Drama and Beyond
and The Age of Television, both also published
by Intellect Books.