Television Antiheroines - Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama

This book focuses on the emergence of female characters in typically male roles, particularly in the crime and prison drama genres. Contributors explore the role of race and sexuality, focusing on the transgression of female identity, and examine how bad women are portrayed and how they reveal the challenges by women to social and economic norms.

About the author

Milly Buonanno is a former professor of television studies in the Department of Communication and Social Research at Sapienza University of Rome. She is the founder and head of the Observatory of Italian TV Drama (1988–present), the co-chair of the research unit Ge.M.Ma. (Gender and Media Matters) (2010–present), an associate editor of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies and sits on the editorial board of several international journals. She has extensively researched and written on television theory and history, television drama and journalism, and has pioneered gender and media studies in Italy. Her recent book-length publications include: The Age of Television (Intellect, 2008), Italian TV Drama and Beyond (Intellect, 2012), The Sage Handbook of Television Studies co-edited with Manuel Alvarado, Herman Gray and Toby Miller (Sage, 2014) and the edited collections Il prisma dei generi (FrancoAngeli, 2014), Television Antiheroines (Intellect, 2017) and Genere e media: non solo immagini co-edited with Franca Faccioli (FrancoAngeli, 2020).

Contact: Milly Buonanno, Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Rome, Italy.

Summary

This book focuses on the emergence of female characters in typically male roles, particularly in the crime and prison drama genres. Contributors explore the role of race and sexuality, focusing on the transgression of female identity, and examine how bad women are portrayed and how they reveal the challenges by women to social and economic norms.

Product details

• Assisted by: Milly Buonanno (Editor), Milly (Sapienza University of Rome Buonanno (Editor), Buonanno Milly (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2017
• EAN: 9781783207602
• ISBN: 978-1-78320-760-2
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Organized crime, Gender studies: women, Television scripts & screenplays, Gender studies: women and girls, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, Television screenplays, scripts and performances, television; antiheroines; crime; popular culture