{"product_id":"chick-tv-yael-levy-9780815637387","title":"Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound","description":"\u003cp\u003eTony 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eGirls, Desperate Housewives, Nurse Jackie, Being Mary \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eJane, Grey's Anatomy, Six Feet Under, Sister Wives, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e the Real Housewives\u003c\/i\u003e franchise, Levy explores the narrative complexities of \"chick TV\" and the radical feminist potential of these shows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yael Levy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815637381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815637387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Yael Levy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43982166294783,"sku":"9780815637387","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8c7ef791-edf4-447d-b12d-9188d0109813.jpg?v=1683259608","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chick-tv-yael-levy-9780815637387","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}