Why we love sociopaths : a guide to late capitalist television

Acknowledgments; Introduction On the desire to be a sociopath; Sociopathy as reverse awkwardness; Love and other market forces; The varieties of sociopathic experience; Chapter 1 The Schemers; The decline of the lovable scamp; Enabling mothers, MILFs, and negative feminism; A show about nihilism; Childish games: Adult edition; Chapter 2 The Climbers; From reality television to "realism"; The paradoxes of sociopathic social climbing; The perils of changing "the game"; Chapter 3 The Enforcers; The lawless lawman; Serial murder as community service; The inhuman humanitarian