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By Margrethe Bruun Vaage

ISBN-10: 1138575674

ISBN-13: 9781138575677

ISBN-10: 1138885975

ISBN-13: 9781138885974

The antihero prevails in fresh American drama tv sequence. Characters comparable to mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), meth cook dinner and gangster-in-the-making Walter White (Breaking Bad) and serial killer Dexter Morgan (Dexter) should not morally reliable, so how do those tv sequence make us interact in those morally undesirable major characters? And what does this let us know approximately our ethical mental makeup, and extra particularly, in regards to the ethical psychology of fiction?

Vaage argues that the fictitious prestige of those sequence deactivates rational, planned ethical assessment, making the spectator depend upon ethical feelings and intuitions which are particularly effortless to control with narrative concepts. however, she additionally argues that those sequence on a regular basis inspire reactivation of planned, ethical review. In so doing, those fictional sequence can train us anything approximately ourselves as ethical beings--what our ethical intuitions and feelings are, and the way those may perhaps vary from planned, ethical evaluation.

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