Hero or villain? : essays on dark protagonists of television / edited by Abigail G. Scheg and Tamara Girardi.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Scheg, Abigail G. (Editor), Girardi, Tamara (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland Publishing, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Abigail G. Scheg and Tamara Girardi
  • Bad Cops and Good Inmates: Shifting Power Structures in Prison Dramas Oz and Orange Is the New Black / Stephanie Lim
  • Harrison Wells and the Making of Identities: The Scientist, the Father and the Family in the Cosmic Battle of Good and Evil in The Flash / Hannah Swamidoss
  • Bad Men: The Fan Culture and Postmasculinity of Breaking Bad / Jack Clarke
  • Breaking It Down: Expressing Black Selfhood and Subverting Binaries of Good and Bad in Key & Peele / Hilarie Ashton
  • Talk Bluntly and Carry a Pointy Stick: Violence and Verbal Complexity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Tirza I. Leader and Darcy Mullen
  • "I need an antiheroine": Female Antiheroes in American Quality Television / Sotiris Petridis
  • A Dangerous Mind: An Examination of the Effectiveness of Walter White as Educator / Richard L. Mehrenberg
  • Building (an) Empire: Queer Sacrifices in Lee Daniels' Empire / Robert LaRue
  • Merlin: Magician, Man and Manipulator in Camelot / Caroline Womack
  • "This isn't a democracy anymore": The Walking Dead's Rick Grimes and the Post-Apocalyptic Good Cop/Bad Cop / Annette Schimmelpfennig
  • "The girl needs a little monster in her man": Heroes and Villains in the Works of Joss Whedon / Don Tresca
  • The Detective, the Pastor and the Thief: Backstrom's Negotiations of Morality / Alissa Burger
  • Building and Breaking an Antihero: The Rise of Sonny Corinthos / Jacinta Yanders
  • You Can't Go Home Again: The Multiple Heroisms of Sergeant Nicholas Brody / Lloyd Isaac Vayo
  • Good Bad Boys and the Women Who Love Them: Romantic Triangulation and the Ideal of Conformist Assimilation in The Vampire Diaries and True Blood / Ana G. Gal
  • Deconstructing the Dichotomy That Is House, M.D.: A Carnivalesque Look at a Good Diagnostician/Bad Guy / Gillian Collie.