Hero or villain? : essays on dark protagonists of television / edited by Abigail G. Scheg and Tamara Girardi.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | JEFFERSON : MCFARLAND, 2017. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | ""Cover""; ""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)"" |
| Contents | ""Talk Bluntly and Carry a Pointy Stick: Violence and Verbal Complexity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Tirza I. Leader and Darcy Mullen)""""â#x80;#x9C;I need an antiheroineâ#x80;#x9D;: 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 Danielsâ#x80;#x99; Empire (Robert LaRue)""; ""Merlin: Magician, Man and Manipulator in Camelot (Caroline Womack)"" |
| Contents | ""Â#x80;#x9C;This isnâ#x80;#x99;t a democracy anymoreâ#x80;#x9D;: The Walking Deadâ#x80;#x99;s Rick Grimes and the Post- Apocalyptic Good Cop/Bad Cop (Annette Schimmelpfennig)""""â#x80;#x9C;The girl needs a little monster in her manâ#x80;#x9D;: Heroes and Villains in the Works of Joss Whedon (Don Tresca)""; ""The Detective, the Pastor and the Thief: Backstromâ#x80;#x99;s Negotiations of Morality (Alissa Burger)""; ""Building and Breaking an Antihero: The Rise of Sonny Corinthos (Jacinta Yanders)""; ""You Canâ#x80;#x99;t Go Home Again: The Multiple Heroisms of Sergeant Nicholas Brody (Lloyd Isaac Vayo)"" |
| Contents | ""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)""; ""About the Contributors"" |
| Issued in other form | Original 9781476667690 1476667691 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1476630526 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781476630526 (electronic bk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |