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

One dimensional television characters are a thing of the past-today's popular shows feature intricate storylines and well developed characters. From the brooding Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries to the tough-minded Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead, protagonists are not categorically good,...

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Other Authors: Girardi, Tamara, 1981- (Editor), Girardi, Tamara (Editor), Scheg, Abigail G., 1986- (Editor), Scheg, Abigail G. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland Publishing, 2017
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505 0 |a 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 
505 0 0 |t Introduction /  |r Abigail G. Scheg and Tamara Girardi --  |t Bad Cops and Good Inmates: Shifting Power Structures in Prison Dramas Oz and Orange Is the New Black /  |r Stephanie Lim --  |t 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 /  |r Hannah Swamidoss --  |t Bad Men: The Fan Culture and Postmasculinity of Breaking Bad /  |r Jack Clarke --  |t Breaking It Down: Expressing Black Selfhood and Subverting Binaries of Good and Bad in Key & Peele /  |r Hilarie Ashton --  |t Talk Bluntly and Carry a Pointy Stick: Violence and Verbal Complexity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer /  |r Tirza I. Leader and Darcy Mullen --  |t "I need an antiheroine": Female Antiheroes in American Quality Television /  |r Sotiris Petridis --  |t A Dangerous Mind: An Examination of the Effectiveness of Walter White as Educator /  |r Richard L. Mehrenberg --  |t Building (an) Empire: Queer Sacrifices in Lee Daniels' Empire /  |r Robert LaRue --  |t Merlin: Magician, Man and Manipulator in Camelot /  |r Caroline Womack --  |t "This isn't a democracy anymore": The Walking Dead's Rick Grimes and the Post-Apocalyptic Good Cop/Bad Cop /  |r Annette Schimmelpfennig --  |t "The girl needs a little monster in her man": Heroes and Villains in the Works of Joss Whedon /  |r Don Tresca --  |t The Detective, the Pastor and the Thief: Backstrom's Negotiations of Morality /  |r Alissa Burger --  |t Building and Breaking an Antihero: The Rise of Sonny Corinthos /  |r Jacinta Yanders --  |t You Can't Go Home Again: The Multiple Heroisms of Sergeant Nicholas Brody /  |r Lloyd Isaac Vayo --  |t Good Bad Boys and the Women Who Love Them: Romantic Triangulation and the Ideal of Conformist Assimilation in The Vampire Diaries and True Blood /  |r Ana G. Gal --  |t Deconstructing the Dichotomy That Is House, M.D.: A Carnivalesque Look at a Good Diagnostician/Bad Guy /  |r Gillian Collie 
520 |a One dimensional television characters are a thing of the past-today's popular shows feature intricate storylines and well developed characters. From the brooding Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries to the tough-minded Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead, protagonists are not categorically good, antagonists often have relatable good sides, and heroes may act as antiheroes from one episode to the next. This collection of new essays examines the complex characters in Orange Is the New Black, Homeland, Key & Peele, Oz, Empire, Breaking Bad, House, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Book jacket 
650 0 |a Antiheroes on television 
650 0 |a Heroes on television 
650 0 |a Protagonists (Persons) 
650 0 |a Villains on television 
650 7 |a Antiheroes on television  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Heroes on television  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Protagonists (Persons)  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Villains on television  |2 fast 
700 1 |a Girardi, Tamara,  |d 1981-  |e editor 
700 1 |a Girardi, Tamara,  |e editor 
700 1 |a Scheg, Abigail G.,  |d 1986-  |e editor 
700 1 |a Scheg, Abigail G.,  |e editor 
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