Alyson Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alyson Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alyson |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4884-1821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Those girls are vicious little monsters”
“Those girls are vicious little monsters”: reading subversive femininities in Yellowjackets
The Perverted Ancestry of the Antiheroine
While complex women in contemporary television are, as Svenja Hohenstein and Katharina Thalmann contend, “no longer a niche phenomenon,” the antiheroine continues to be defined by her relationship to motherhood, sexuality, and violence. This essay contrasts antiheroines Camille Preaker and Mare Sheehan from HBO's Sharp Objects and Mare of Easttown and argues that the antiheroine is premised on a disturbed mother-daughter dynamic that complexly ma…
Agents of Chaos
This article examines the monstrous-feminine in the television series Killing Eve, focusing on the characters of Villanelle and Eve Polastri. It argues that the series uses the monstrous-feminine to explore themes of female rage, transgression, and desire. The article analyzes how Villanelle's monstrousness is constructed through her violence, her performativity, and her refusal to conform to traditional gender roles. It also examines how Eve's f…
Scandalous women
Examining a diverse range of texts offering controversial representations of female sexuality, this paper demonstrates a persistent link between literary scandal and anxieties about women's sexuality. Texts from Madame Bovary (1857) to The Sexual Life of Catherine M (2001) have provoked various arguments, from debates about the need to restrain the unruly bodies of women to contestations about aesthetic merit, morality, and obscenity. Indeed, the…
Agents of Chaos
This article examines the monstrous-feminine in the television series Killing Eve, focusing on the characters of Villanelle and Eve Polastri. It argues that the series uses the monstrous-feminine to explore themes of female rage, transgression, and desire. The article analyzes how Villanelle's monstrousness is constructed through her violence, her performativity, and her refusal to conform to traditional gender roles. It also examines how Eve's f…
Scandalous women
Examining a diverse range of texts offering controversial representations of female sexuality, this paper demonstrates a persistent link between literary scandal and anxieties about women's sexuality. Texts from Madame Bovary (1857) to The Sexual Life of Catherine M (2001) have provoked various arguments, from debates about the need to restrain the unruly bodies of women to contestations about aesthetic merit, morality, and obscenity. Indeed, the…
Agents of Chaos
This article examines the monstrous-feminine in the television series Killing Eve, focusing on the characters of Villanelle and Eve Polastri. It argues that the series uses the monstrous-feminine to explore themes of female rage, transgression, and desire. The article analyzes how Villanelle's monstrousness is constructed through her violence, her performativity, and her refusal to conform to traditional gender roles. It also examines how Eve's f…
Those girls are vicious little monsters”
“Those girls are vicious little monsters”: reading subversive femininities in Yellowjackets
The Perverted Ancestry of the Antiheroine
While complex women in contemporary television are, as Svenja Hohenstein and Katharina Thalmann contend, “no longer a niche phenomenon,” the antiheroine continues to be defined by her relationship to motherhood, sexuality, and violence. This essay contrasts antiheroines Camille Preaker and Mare Sheehan from HBO's Sharp Objects and Mare of Easttown and argues that the antiheroine is premised on a disturbed mother-daughter dynamic that complexly ma…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works)