Book review: Pandora's Box: The Greed, Lust and Lies that Broke Television by Peter Biskind
As the power in Hollywood has moved from film to the small screen, so has the much-mythologised alpha male auteur.
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As the power in Hollywood has moved from film to the small screen, so has the much-mythologised alpha male auteur.
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In Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down, crew, writers and actor Orlando Jones discuss disparate treatment between stars Nichole Beharie and Tom Mison.
'The New Female Antihero' explores how misogyny undermines television's strong female antiheros and how that, in turn, stunts our culture's ability to embrace feminism.