Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya

In September 2023 we Spent a Night at the Movies. Our non-fiction title was Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya!

Read this book if you have interests in pop culture and why women are always put in there tropes on the big screen.

We had the chance to welcome Anna onto the podcast! Listen here to learn more about Unlikeable Female Characters! 

MORE ABOUT Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya :

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, from Samantha Jones as “The Slut” in Sex and the City to the iconic Mean Girl, Regina George, 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 co-founder 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.

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