Margrethe Bruun Vaage

The Antihero in American Television

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Produktbeschreibung

The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series. Characters such as mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), meth cook and gangster-in-the-making Walter White (Breaking Bad) and serial killer Dexter Morgan (Dexter) are not morally good, so how do these television series make us engage in these morally bad main characters? And what does this tell us about our moral psychological make-up, and more specifically, about the moral psychology of fiction?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 357g
• ISBN-13: 9781138575677
• ISBN-10: 1138575674
• Artikelnr.: 49787364

Autorenporträt

Margrethe Bruun Vaage is Lecturer in the Film Department at the University of Kent, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Morally Murky: On Navigating Fictional Worlds by Moral Emotions
and Intuitions 2. Partiality: How Knowing Someone Well Influences Morality
3. Suspense and Moral Evaluation: How Engagement Is Shaped by Suspense and
Style 4. Why So Many Television Series with Antiheroes? The Attraction of
the Antihero's Very Immorality 5. Crossing the Line: On Moral Disgust and
Proper Villains in the Antihero Series 6. The Antihero's Wife: On Hating
Skyler White, and on the Rare Female Antihero Conclusion