Better living through TV : contemporary TV and moral identity formation /: contemporary TV and moral identity formation. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Steven A. Benko.
• Editors: Benko, Steven A
• Contents: Acknowledgments Foreword Martin Shuster Introduction: Television: What is it Good For? Steven A. Benko Chapter One: Sleeping with Fishes and Talking with Horses: Animality, Identity, and Vegetarianism in The Sopranos H. Peter Steeves Chapter Two: The Bigger the Lie, the More They Believe: Morality and Ethics in The Wire John Hillman Chapter Three: The Two Walters: Walt Whitman's Poetry and the Moral Vision of Breaking Bad Douglas Rasmussen Chapter Four: Check Your Settings: Change to a Democratic Framework for Feminist Subtitles Leigh Kellmann Kolb Chapter Five: "The Lord of War and Thunder": The Morality of Nemesis and Retributive Justice within Justified James L. Shelton Chapter Six: Law and Loyalty in Hellcats Matt Hummel Chapter Seven: Justice is Served: Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal and the Evolution of Cultural Morality Douglas L. Howard Chapter Eight: What Made the Devil Do It? Matilde Accurso Liotta and Martina Vanzo Chapter Nine: Letterkenny: Tolerance Meets Tradition Dutton Kearney Chapter Ten: Morality versus Mortality: The Meaning of (After)Life in The Good Place Jill B. Delston Chapter Eleven: How Television Produces Invisible Communities in an Age of Loneliness. A Detailed Look at 13 Reasons Why Denis Newiak Chapter Twelve: Can Watching TV Make Me a Unicorn? TV and the Ethics of Decency Steven A. Benko and Eleanor Jones Chapter Thirteen: The Baby Yoda Effect: A Kantian Analysis of Mandalorian Ethics James Rocha Chapter Fourteen: “So, a Black Captain America, huh?” Race in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Alisa Johnson and Steven A. Benko Index About the Contributors
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 302.2345; Television programs -- Social aspects; Television programs -- Moral and ethical aspects; Television viewers
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781793636195
• Related ISBNs: 9781793636188
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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