Characters such as mobster kingpin Tony Soprano, meth cook and gangster-in-the-making Walter White, and serial killer Dexter Morgan 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 psychological make-up and about the moral psychology of fiction?
Characters such as mobster kingpin Tony Soprano, meth cook and gangster-in-the-making Walter White, and serial killer Dexter Morgan 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 psychological make-up and about the moral psychology of fiction?
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
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
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