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Author: Margrethe Bruun Vaage
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9781138885974
ISBN 10: 1138885975
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 27 October 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Tertiary & Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Combining an informative survey of salient research in psychology and philosophical aesthetics with careful conceptual analysis and close examinations of well-known television series, Margrethe Bruun Vaage's book offers a fresh perspective on the nature of contemporary American television drama and the ways it engages viewers. Exemplifying the virtues of the best interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities, this book opens up new avenues of research for television studies scholars, cognitivist theorists, and philosophers of film, and will also appeal to any students or scholars with an interest in the question of what makes characters like Tony Soprano and Walter White so compelling. - Ted Nannicelli, University of Queensland, Australia In exploring the popularity of the antihero in contemporary US television, Vaage (film, Univ. of Kent, UK) sets out to look specifically at ... the attraction antihero series offer the spectator emotionally and cognitively. Her focus falls primarily on the characters Tony Soprano (The Sopranos) and Walter White (Breaking Bad), although Dexter Morgan (Dexter), Frank and Claire Underwood (House of Cards), Patty Hewes (Damages), and Lester Nygaard and Lorne Malvo (Fargo, season 1) are among other characters Vaage discusses. As befits a work that had its origin as a postdoctoral research project, this is a scholarly treatise, not a popular history of antihero television. As such, it offers interesting analysis and useful insights into this television genre. Summing Up: Recommended. - D. Highsmith, California State University--East Bay, CHOICE Reviews
Combining an informative survey of salient research in psychology and philosophical aesthetics with careful conceptual analysis and close examinations of well-known television series, Margrethe Bruun Vaage's book offers a fresh perspective on the nature of contemporary American television drama and the ways it engages viewers. Exemplifying the virtues of the best interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities, this book opens up new avenues of research for television studies scholars, cognitivist theorists, and philosophers of film, and will also appeal to any students or scholars with an interest in the question of what makes characters like Tony Soprano and Walter White so compelling. - Ted Nannicelli, University of Queensland, Australia
Author Information
Margrethe Bruun Vaage is Lecturer in the Film Department at the University of Kent, UK
