Death on the Small Screen: The Psychology of Viewing Violent Television

ISBN-13: 9781476688015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 175 str.

Jonathan F. Bassett

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• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Dying to Watch: The Role of Death Anxiety in the Appeal of Fictional Violence
• 2. The Paramount Place of Death in Human Psychology: An Overview of Terror Management Theory
• 3. Applying TMT to Illumine the Motives for and Reactions to Fictional Violence
• 4. There Is Only One Thing We Say to Death—Not Today: Battling Existential Terror in HBO's Game of Thrones
• 5. Death-Denying (Super)heroism: Gender, Trauma, and Violence in Marvel's The Punisher on Netflix
• 6. Death-Confronting (Super)heroism: Facing Existential and Social Problems in Marvel's Jessica Jones on Netflix
• 7. Moral and Existential Dilemmas and the Quest for Death Transcendence in the FX Television Series Sons of Anarchy
• 8. Giving Voice to the Unmentionable: The Appeal of Transcending Mortality and Corporeality in the NBC Television Series Hannibal
• Final Thoughts
• References
• Index