Unlikeable Female Characters The Women Pop Culture Wants You To Hate Anna Bogutskaya by Anna Bogutskaya, Terri White (foreword) 9781728274744, 1728274745 instant download after payment.

"A fresh feminist appraisal of the pop culture canon." —Publishers Weekly

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, & crazy women have taken over pop culture & liberated women from having to be nice.

Female characters throughout history have been burdened by the moral trap that is likeability. Any woman who dares to reveal her messy side has been treated as a cautionary tale. Today, unlikeable female characters are everywhere in film, TV, & wider pop culture. For the first time ever, they are being accepted by audiences & even showered with industry awards. We are finally accepting that women are—gasp—fully fledged human beings. How did we get to this point?

Unlikeable Female Characters traces the evolution of highly memorable female characters, examining what exactly makes them popular, how audiences have reacted to them, & the ways in which pop culture is finally allowing us to celebrate the complexities of being a woman. Anna Bogutskaya, film programmer, broadcaster, & co-founder of the horror film collective & podcast The Final Girls, takes us on a journey through popular film, TV, & music, looking at the nuances of womanhood on & off-screen to reveal whether pop culture—and society—is finally ready to embrace complicated women.

Anna Bogutskaya is a London-based freelance film programmer, broadcaster, writer & creative producer, connected in both the worlds of US & UK film. She is also the co-founder of the horror film collective & podcast The Final Girls & Festival Director of Underwire Festival. Previously, Anna was the Film & Events Programmer at the British Film Institute. In 2019, she was selected as one of Screen International’s Future Leaders in Curation & Programming & was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, & in 2020 was selected as a mentor at SXSW.