Beth Johnson

Keele University, UK

http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/en/staff/beth_johnson.html

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Dexter: Repression, Revelation and the Significance of Mommy

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Beth Johnson Keele University, UK

November 03, 2009
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Dexter: Repression, Revelation and the Significance of Mommy Psychoanalysis mother fixation Freud Repression Dexter Curator's Note The following piece suggests links between Dexter’s traumatic witnessing of his mother’s murder and his relationship wi ...

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Re: Fragments of Dexter: The Credit Sequence as Character Study

Questioning Perception

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Beth Johnson Keele University, UK

Monday, November 2, 2009 — 8:02 pm
Some really interesting comments on an excellent post – many thanks Angelina! In response to Michael’s comment I agree that the opening sequence exposes the ambiguities of vision in a familiar and comedic way. In addition however, the opening scene also ...
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Re: Dexter and Film Noir: Lila the Femme Fatale

Lila: Noir Alien

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Beth Johnson Keele University, UK

Thursday, November 5, 2009 — 9:22 am
Ally- a really excellent post with so much to discuss! The noir aspects of Dexter are made so explicit in your piece here – many thanks for these new insights. Dexter’s treatment of Lila is, as you mention, disturbingly gendered… You mention that Lila t ...
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Re: Dexter: Early Cuts: A Slice of (Comic) Life

Early Cuts

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Beth Johnson Keele University, UK

Friday, November 6, 2009 — 1:36 pm
Doug- such an interesting post! I was unaware of 'Dexter: Early Cuts'. Logging onto the link you embedded above, the graphic novel/comic/cartoon generic mix appears to be superbly animated- and of course gives us a significant additional insigh ...