What is an antihero? This literary invention goes back to the Greeks who used such characters to tell tales of morality to their children. Religious texts also talk of flawed, imperfect humans who regardless of their problems, rise to the challenge of saving others and using their inner strength to defeat the devil and other demons. I'm no Superman! Antiheroes in Popular Culture - Examining TV Characters (Volume 1) focuses on the most interesting antihero on network television, cable and streaming service over the ...
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What is an antihero? This literary invention goes back to the Greeks who used such characters to tell tales of morality to their children. Religious texts also talk of flawed, imperfect humans who regardless of their problems, rise to the challenge of saving others and using their inner strength to defeat the devil and other demons. I'm no Superman! Antiheroes in Popular Culture - Examining TV Characters (Volume 1) focuses on the most interesting antihero on network television, cable and streaming service over the past sixty years. This volume in a series of four (TV, movies, sports and music) highlights such popular antihero characters such as Tony Soprano, Walter White, Don Draper, Dexter Morgan and others. Each character is summarized for both his strengths and weaknesses and his/her story is examined to see how each antihero responses to personal or professional challenges in life. Do each of our antiheroes redeem themselves at the end of their journeys? Many do find redemption, but what would you say this about Walter White? If you call killing a bunch of Nazi-type drug deals, providing his wife a 'get out of jail free' card and rescuing Jessie from his captures, then, yes. Yet if you see Heisenberg still as a murderer and selfish meth king, perhaps not. What about Dexter? And Tony S? In Mad Men , Don Draper finally comes to realize he must accept what he has become and face new challenges as the man he stole his identity from as he starts to work for a new advertising firm back in NY. So take your time looking at how each of the top TV character over the past 65 years in the history of the medium have turned out in the stories we love to watch/watched each week. Would it not be easier to better understand what top writers and producers want you see in their most entertaining characters - especially those with flaws, some ruthless, others, harmless? With so many antiheroes like John Locke and Ben Linus on the iconic series, Lost, is it not time to give these characters and their stories a closer look?
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