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Why We Love Sociopaths : a Guide To Late Capitalist Television

Sociopaths are pervasive in contemporary television, from high-brow drama all the way down to cartoons -- and of course the news as well. From the scheming Eric Cartman of South Parkto the seductive imposter Don Drap
eBook, English, 2012
John Hunt Publishing, Lanham, 2012
1 online resource (125 pages)
9781780990927, 1780990928
845244043
Print version:
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