Better Living through TV

Contemporary TV and Moral Identity Formation
Herausgeber: Benko, Steven A.

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection analyze a variety of contemporary television shows to argue for the role that TV plays in moral identity formation. Audiences take from television viewing a better sense of what matters to them, ways of relating to others, and a moral sense of the world they inhabit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 725g
• ISBN-13: 9781793636188
• ISBN-10: 1793636184
• Artikelnr.: 63430158

Autorenporträt

Edited by Steven A. Benko - Contributions by Steven A. Benko; Jill B. Delston; John Hillman; Douglas L. Howard; Matt Hummel; Alisa Johnson; Eleanor Jones; Dutton Kearney; Leigh Kellmann Kolb; Matilde Accurso Liotta; Denis Newiak; Douglas Rasmussen; James

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Martin Shuster
Introduction: Television: What is it Good For?
Steven A. Benko
Chapter One: Sleeping with Fishes and Talking with Horses: Animality,
Identity, and Vegetarianism in The Sopranos
H. Peter Steeves
Chapter Two: The Bigger the Lie, the More They Believe: Morality and Ethics
in The Wire
John Hillman
Chapter Three: The Two Walters: Walt Whitman's Poetry and the Moral Vision
of Breaking Bad
Douglas Rasmussen
Chapter Four: Check Your Settings: Change to a Democratic Framework for
Feminist Subtitles
Leigh Kellmann Kolb
Chapter Five: "The Lord of War and Thunder": The Morality of Nemesis and
Retributive Justice within Justified
James L. Shelton
Chapter Six: Law and Loyalty in Hellcats
Matt Hummel
Chapter Seven: Justice is Served: Bryan Fuller's Hannibal and the Evolution
of Cultural Morality
Douglas L. Howard
Chapter Eight: What Made the Devil Do It?
Matilde Accurso Liotta and Martina Vanzo
Chapter Nine: Letterkenny: Tolerance Meets Tradition
Dutton Kearney
Chapter Ten: Morality versus Mortality: The Meaning of (After)Life in The
Good Place
Jill B. Delston
Chapter Eleven: How Television Produces Invisible Communities in an Age of
Loneliness. A Detailed Look at 13 Reasons Why
Denis Newiak
Chapter Twelve: Can Watching TV Make Me a Unicorn? TV and the Ethics of
Decency
Steven A. Benko and Eleanor Jones
Chapter Thirteen: The Baby Yoda Effect: A Kantian Analysis of Mandalorian
Ethics
James Rocha
Chapter Fourteen: "So, a Black Captain America, huh?" Race in The Falcon
and the Winter Soldier
Alisa Johnson and Steven A. Benko
Index
About the Contributors