{"product_id":"better-living-through-tv-contemporary-tv-and-moral-identity-formation-9781793636188","title":"Better Living through TV: Contemporary TV and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWatching television need not be a passive activity or simply for entertainment purposes. Television can be the site of important identity work and moral reflection. Audiences can learn about themselves, what matters to them, and how to relate to others by thinking about the implicit and explicit moral messages in the shows they watch. Better Living through TV: Contemporary TV and Moral Identity Formation analyzes the possibility of identifying and adopting moral values from television shows that aired during the latest Golden Era of television and Peak TV. The diversity of shows and approaches to moral becoming demonstrate how television during these eras took advantage of new technologies to become more film-like in both production quality and content. The increased depth of characterization and explosion of content across streaming and broadcast channels gave viewers a diversity of worlds and moral values to explore. The possibility of finding a moral in the stories told on popular shows such as The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire, and The Good Place, as well as lesser known shows such as Letterkenny and The Unicorn, are explored in a way that centers television viewing as a site for moral identity formation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Shuster\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Television: What is it Good For?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven A. Benko\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: Sleeping with Fishes and Talking with Horses: Animality, Identity, and Vegetarianism in The Sopranos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eH. Peter Steeves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: The Bigger the Lie, the More They Believe: Morality and Ethics in The Wire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Hillman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: The Two Walters: Walt Whitman's Poetry and the Moral Vision of Breaking Bad\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouglas Rasmussen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Check Your Settings: Change to a Democratic Framework for Feminist Subtitles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeigh Kellmann Kolb\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: \"The Lord of War and Thunder\": The Morality of Nemesis and Retributive Justice within Justified \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames L. Shelton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Law and Loyalty in Hellcats\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatt Hummel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Justice is Served: Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal and the Evolution of Cultural Morality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouglas L. Howard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: What Made the Devil Do It?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatilde Accurso Liotta and Martina Vanzo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: Letterkenny: Tolerance Meets Tradition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDutton Kearney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: Morality versus Mortality: The Meaning of (After)Life in The Good Place\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJill B. Delston\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven: How Television Produces Invisible Communities in an Age of Loneliness. A Detailed Look at 13 Reasons Why\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDenis Newiak\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve: Can Watching TV Make Me a Unicorn? TV and the Ethics of Decency\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven A. Benko and Eleanor Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Thirteen: The Baby Yoda Effect: A Kantian Analysis of Mandalorian Ethics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Rocha\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Fourteen: “So, a Black Captain America, huh?” Race in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlisa Johnson and Steven A. Benko\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042670477655,"sku":"9781793636188","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793636188.jpg?v=1750955105","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/better-living-through-tv-contemporary-tv-and-moral-identity-formation-9781793636188","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}