Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland Publishing, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Scheg, Abigail G., 1986-
• Girardi, Tamara

Description

214 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Heroes on television
• Antiheroes on television
• Villains on television
• Protagonists (Persons)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references and index.

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.

Call Number

MWGT 17-4196

ISBN

• 9781476667690
• 1476667691

OCLC

989968452

Title

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

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland Publishing, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Added Author

Scheg, Abigail G., 1986- editor.

Girardi, Tamara, editor.

Research Call Number

MWGT 17-4196