Analyzing Gender Role Representations of Serial Killers in "Dexter"
TV series are used as mediums to reflect personal troubles and public issues, which are connected to each other with the concept of "sociological imagination" In other words, it is the awareness of personal experience and wider society relationship and is used in the TV series to reflect the social reality. Without gender role representation, analyzing the reflection of reality in the TV shows would be inadequate. In order to analyze the gender role representations, one of the Showtime TV series, "Dexter" will be used as a case study. Besides gender role representation in "Dexter" because the show is based on a serial killer character, Dexter Morgan, serial killer typologies and their effective usage in the episodes will be discussed. The aim of this study is to sociologically analyze the gender role representations with the serial killer typologies of the characters in Dexter. There are basically four serial killer typologies for men and seven for women. These are visionary, mission oriented, hedonistic, power/control oriented for men and black widow, angel of death, sexual predator, revenge, profit or crime, team killer, question of sanity for women.