Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
Anna Bogutskaya
Jul 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Raquel Beattie
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How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and 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, and wider pop culture. For the first time ever, they are being accepted by audiences and 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, and the ways in which pop culture is finally allowing us to celebrate the complexities of being a woman. Anna Bogutskaya, film programmer, broadcaster, and cofounder of the horror film collective and podcast The Final Girls takes us on a journey through popular film, TV, and music, looking at the nuances of womanhood on and off-screen to reveal whether pop culture-and society-is finally ready to embrace complicated women.
About the author
Anna Bogutskaya is a London-based freelance film programmer, broadcaster, writer, and creative producer. She is also cofounder of the horror film collective and podcast The Final Girls and festival director of Underwire Festival. Previously, Anna was the film and events programmer at the British Film Institute.
Raquel Beattie has narrated over fifty books from her home studio. She speaks conversational Spanish and is comfortable with beginning French. She loves spending time with her husband and three kids, getting outside in nature, hanging with friends, dark humor, and eating good food.
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