★TV series is more than just an entertainment product. In these days, TV series are able to reach hundreds of millions of viewers around the world, changing the "collective unconscious" in an invisible way, and the characters of TV series can be more influential than real people, so TV series and the characters deserve in-depth consideration and research.
★Marina Pierri shows us that the fragile and flawed traditional images of women, which have been inadequately portrayed under the influence of patriarchal cultures, have finally found their own diversity on the modern stage of TV dramas.
★ The book involves philosophical and psychological analysis of the characters of popular TV series such as “Game of Thrones” and “The Handmaid's Tale”, bringing fresh and in-depth thinking to fans.
★It is suitable for readers who are interested in social science and social studies, as well as readers who wish to find themselves in the characters of TV series. Characters in TV series can help us build our self-awareness and understand ourselves: to learn about our dark sides, our desires, and our infinite possibilities.
★With preface written by Maura Gancitano.

A TV series can change the perceptions of entire nations on social, scientific, political, and relational issues, giving voice to people who are still invisible in our society, who never had a chance to speak. Marina Pierri has a great ability to bring together two very different worlds: that of intersectional feminism and that of psychology.

In this book, Marina Pierri starts from a vast philosophical, cinematic, and psychological reading and creates an operation unprecedented: besides talking about the power of stories, she focuses on the power of characters in TV series, showing their archetypal value.

MARINA PIERRI
Writer and television critic, she collaborates with numerous newspapers including Corriere della Sera. She devotes herself to the study of television languages and gender representation in audiovisual media. She teaches. She is co-author of the podcast “Tutte col Tutù” and is co-founder and artistic director of FeST - The Milan TV Series Festival. She has participated in the anthologies “Tutte le ragazze avanti!” and “The Game Unplugged”.

Preface by Maura Gancitano

Introduction

Part 1
Chapter One
The importance of female experience in contemporary television narratives

Chapter 2
Awakening the Heroine within us (and how this book works)

Part Two
The Innocent
The World Before

The Orphan
Discovering oneself in a cage

The Warrior
Drawing the Boundaries

The Guardian Angel
Caring for oneself

The Seeker
Getting out of the cage

The Destroyer
Descend (to rise again)

The Lover
Heal

The Creator
One's life as art

The Sovereign
Declaring Independence

The Sorceress
Naming and transcending

The Wise One
The Voice of the Crone

The Mad
Life, death and more life

Conclusion
The Journey has ended. The Journey has begun again

Acknowledgements

Bibliography