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Dexter and Philosophy: Mind over Spatter (Popular Culture & Philosophy)
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Description for Dexter and Philosophy: Mind over Spatter (Popular Culture & Philosophy)
Paperback. Although Dexter Morgan kills only killers, he is not a vigilante but a charming psychopath. His gory appetite is controlled by 'Harry's Code', which limits his victims to those who have gotten away with murder, and his job as a blood-spatter expert for the Miami police department gives him the inside track on those targets. Editor(s): Greene, Richard; Reisch, George A.; Robison, Rachel. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
What explains the huge popular following for Dexter, currently the most-watched show on cable, which sympathetically depicts a serial killer driven by a cruel compulsion to brutally slay one victim after another? Although Dexter Morgan kills only killers, he is not a vigilante animated by a sense of justice but a charming psychopath animated by a lust to kill, ritualistically and bloodily. However his gory appetite is controlled by "Harry's Code," which limits his victims to those who have gotten away with murder, and his job as a blood spatter expert for the Miami police department gives him the ... Read more
What explains the huge popular following for Dexter, currently the most-watched show on cable, which sympathetically depicts a serial killer driven by a cruel compulsion to brutally slay one victim after another? Although Dexter Morgan kills only killers, he is not a vigilante animated by a sense of justice but a charming psychopath animated by a lust to kill, ritualistically and bloodily. However his gory appetite is controlled by "Harry's Code," which limits his victims to those who have gotten away with murder, and his job as a blood spatter expert for the Miami police department gives him the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Open Court
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Chicago, IL, United States
ISBN
9780812697179
SKU
V9780812697179
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Ref
99-15
About Greene
Richard Greene is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. He is co-editor of Zombies, Vampires, and Philosophy, The Sopranos and Philosophy, Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy, and The Golden Compass and Philosophy. George Reisch is the author of How the Cold War Transformed the Philosophy of Science and editor of Pink Floyd and Philosophy and ... Read more
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