Film lecturer Dr Margrethe Bruun-Vaage has recently published her new book ‘The Antihero in American Television’ with Routledge.<\/p>\n
The antihero prevails in recent American drama television series. Characters such as mobster kingpin Tony Soprano (The Sopranos<\/i>), meth cook and gangster-in-the-making Walter White (Breaking Bad<\/i>) and serial killer Dexter Morgan (Dexter<\/i>) 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?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
For more information about the book or to get your copy go to the Routledge website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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