In The Anti-Heroine on Contemporary Television: Transgressive Women, Molly Brost explores the various applications and definitions of the term anti-heroine, sho

This volume offers a stimulating perspective on the status of representations of a new kind of female character who emerged on the scene on US television in the

This book focuses on the emergence of female characters in typically male roles, particularly in the crime and prison drama genres. Contributors explore the rol

The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series. Characters such as mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), meth cook and gangster-in-the-

The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television. The last ten years have seen a