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? Vaage argues that the fictional status of these series deactivates rational, deliberate moral evaluation, making the spectator rely on moral emotions and intuitions that are relatively easy to manipulate with narrative strategies. Nevertheless, she also argues that these series regularly encourage reactivation of deliberate, moral evaluation. In so doing, these fictional series can teach us something about ourselves as moral beings-what our moral intuitions and emotions are, and how these might differ from deliberate, moral evaluation.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9781138885974
eBay Product ID (ePID)
216340650
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Anti Hero in American Television
Author
Margrethe Bruun Vaage
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2015
Number of Pages
206 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
454g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Margrethe Bruun Vaage
Series Title
Routledge Advances in Television Studies
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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