Dexter : investigating cutting edge television

Book 2010

"Based upon the highly successful Jeff Lindsay novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Showtime and FX's Dexter continues to raise the bar on the television drama, as it chronicles the grisly exploits of a blood spatter expert who moonlights as a serial killer (or vice versa). Unlike other serial killers, however, Dexter, dutifully following the code of his foster father Harry, only kills other killers, a distinction that sets up one of the primary ethical...

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Dexter (Television program)

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Investigating cult TV

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ISBN:

9781848852655
1848852657

Description:

xxiv, 264 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index
Includes teleography and filmography

Contents:

Introduction : Killing time with Showtime's Dexter / Douglas L. Howard
An interview with author and Dexter creator Jeff Lindsay
An interview with Dexter writer and developer James Manos, Jr
Dissecting the opening sequence / Angelina I. Karpovich
"Serial" killer : Dexter's narrative strategies / David Lavery
Dexter's hollow designs / Steven Peacock
Harry Morgan : (post)modern Prometheus / Douglas L. Howard
Sex, psychoanalysis, and sublimination in Dexter / Beth Johnson
Blood brothers : Brian + Dexter + Miguel / Fionna Boyle
The ethics of a serial killer : Dexter's moral character and the justification of murder / Simon Riches and Craig French
The devil you know : Dexter and the "goodness" of American serial killing / David Schmid
Neoliberal Dexter? / Michele Byers
Dexter's German reception : why are German networks so obsessed (and troubled) with US shows? / Vladislav Tinchev
The lighter side of death : Dexter as comedy / James Francis, Jr
In a lonely place? Dexter and film noir / Alison Peirse
The art of sp(l)atter : body horror in Dexter / Simon Brown and Stacey Abbott
From silver bullets to duct tape : Dexter versus the traditional vigilante hero / Stan Beeler

LCCN:

2010514013

Control Number:

2644889

Other Authors:

Howard, Douglas L., 1966-

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