Antiheroines of Contemporary Media - Saints, Sinners, and Survivors (Hardcover)

This volume of essays provides a critical foray into the methods used to construct narratives which foreground antiheroines, a trope which has become increasingly popular within literary media, film, and television. Antiheroine characters engage constructions of motherhood, womanhood, femininity, and selfhood as mediated by the structures that socially prescribe boundaries of gender, sex, and sexuality. Within this collection, scholars of literary, cultural, media, and gender studies address the complications of representing agency, autonomy, and self-determination within narrative texts complicated by age, class, race, sexuality, and a spectrum of privilege that reflects the complexities of scripting women on and off screen, within and beyond the page. This collection offers perspectives on the alternate narratives engendered through the motivations, actions, and agendas of the antiheroine, while engaging with the discourses of how such narratives are employed both as potentially feminist interventions and critiques of access, hierarchy, and power.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2020
Editors:	Melanie Haas • N. A. Pierce • Gretchen Busl
Contributors:	Melanie Haas • Henriette-Juliane Seeliger • Tiara Sukhan • Brenda Boudreau • Lucinda Rasmussen • Melanie Piper • Louise Coopey
Dimensions:	239 x 163 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-1-79362-456-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-79362-456-9
Barcode:	9781793624567

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