Full Description
Based upon the successful Jeff Lindsay novel "Darkly Dreaming Dexter", Showtime's and FX's "Dexter" continues to raise the bar on television drama, as it chronicles the grisly exploits of a police blood spatter expert who moonlights as a serial killer (or vice versa). Unlike other serial killers, however, Dexter only kills the bad guys, a distinction that sets up one of the primary ethical conflicts of the show, for Dexter as well as for the viewer. Including a complete episode guide to the first three seasons, and an exclusive interview with "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" author Jeff Lindsay, "Dexter" brings together an international group of critics and scholars to offer the first lively investigation of this show's many issues, contexts, and complexities. It considers such topics as Dexter as a vigilante hero, Dexter and psychoanalysis, the Politics of "Dexter", and the intriguing international reception of the series.
Contents
Table of Contents
Douglas L. Howard, Introduction
1. Blood Slides: The Structure of the Series:
Angelina Karpovich "Dexter's Opening Sequence"
David Lavery "'Serial' Killer: Dexter's Narrative
Strategies"
Steven Peacock"Dexter's Hollow Designs"
3. Death in the Family: Dexter Under the Microscope
Douglas L. Howard -"Harry Morgan:
(Post)Modern Prometheus"
Beth Johnson "Sex, Psychoanalysis, and
Sublimation in Dexter"
Fionna Boyle--"Blood Brothers: Dexter, Rudy Cooper, and Miguel Prado"
4. A View to a Kill: Politics, Ethics, and Dexter
Simon Riches -"The Ethics of a Serial Killer:
Dexter's Utilitarian Justification of Murder"
Vladislav Tinchev—"Dexter's German Reception"
David Schmidt "The Devil You Know: Dexter and the
'Goodness' of American Serial Killing"
Michele Byers "A Political Reading of Dexter"
5. Dexterity: Dexter and Genre
James Francis "The Lighter Side of
Killing: Dexter as Comedy"
Alison Peirse "In a Lonely Place? Dexter and Film Noir"
Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown "The Art of Splatter: Body Horror in Dexter, CSI and
Bones"
Stan Beeler —"From Silver Bullets to Duct
tape: Dexter versus the Traditional Vigilante Hero"
Episode Guide
Bibliography
Index
