Dexter: Investigating Cutting Edge Television [Paperback]

Based upon the successful Jeff Lindsay novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter , Showtime's and FX's Dexter continues to raise the bar on television drama, as it chronicles the grisly exploits of a police blood spatter expert who moonlights as a serial killer (or vice versa). Unlike other serial killers, however, Dexter only kills the bad guys, a distinction that sets up one of the primary ethical conflicts of the show, for Dexter as well as for the viewer. Including a complete episode guide to the first three seasons, and an exclusive interview with Darkly Dreaming Dexter author Jeff Lindsay, Dexter brings together an international group of critics and scholars to offer the first lively investigation of this show's many issues, contexts, and complexities. It considers such topics as Dexter as a vigilante hero, Dexter and psychoanalysis, the Politics of Dexter , and the intriguing international reception of the series.Douglas L. Howard is Assistant Academic Chair and Associate Professor in the English Department at Suffolk County Community College. His publications include chapters in 'This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos', as well as in 'Reading The Sopranos : Hit TV from HBO', 'Reading Deadwood : A Western to Swear By', and 'Reading 24 : TV Against the Clock' (all I.B. Tauris). He is co-editor of 'The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination'.

Table of Contents
Douglas L. Howard, Introduction

1. Blood Slides: The Structure of the Series:

Angelina Karpovich Dexter's Opening Sequence
David Lavery 'Serial' Killer: Dexter's Narrative
Strategies
Steven Peacock Dexter's Hollow Designs

3. Death in the Family: Dexter Under the Microscope

Douglas L. Howard - Harry Morgan:
(Post)Modern Prometheus
Beth Johnson Sex, Psychoanalysis, and
Sublimation in Dexter
Fionna Boyle-- Blood Brothers: Dexter, Rudy Cooper, and Miguel Prado

4. A View to a Kill: Politics, Ethics, alJ