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Shop nowUnlikeable Female Characters
The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
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Raquel Beattie
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Length
11 hours 22 minutes
Language
English
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.
Anna Bogutskaya is a London-based freelance film programmer, broadcaster, writer, and creative producer, connected in both the worlds of US and UK film. 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. In 2019, she was selected as one of Screen International's Future Leaders in curation and programming and was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and in 2020 was selected as a mentor at SXSW.
Raquel Beattie has narrated over fifty books from her home studio. She speaks conversational Spanish and is comfortable with beginning French. She can do a range of voices and select accents, including American Southern and Mexican. She loves spending time with her husband and three kids, getting outside in nature, hanging with friends, dark humor, and eating good food. "I'm not a foodie per se, but I really appreciate simple and tasty meals," she says, as she goes to Whataburger for the hundredth time.