The Methods of Breaking Bad

Essays on Narrative, Character and Ethics
Herausgeber: Blevins, Jacob; Wood, Dafydd

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Produktbeschreibung

Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad is a central work in the recent renaissance in television-making. The visionary scope and complexity of the series demand rigorous critical analysis. This collection of new essays focuses on a variety of themes. Walter White is discussed as father, psychopath and scientist and as an example of masculinity. The essayists examine the series in terms of gender, neo-liberal politics and health care reform, as well as the more traditional aesthetic categories of narrative construction, experimentation, allusion and genre. With television the dominant artistic medium of early 21st century America, Breaking Bad should be viewed as a superbly designed work reflecting widespread cultural concerns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780786495788
• ISBN-10: 0786495782
• Artikelnr.: 41477576

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Jacob Blevins)
Flies and One-Eyed Bears: The Maturation of a Genre (Dafydd Wood)
Flies in the Marketplace: Nietzsche and Neoliberalism in Breaking Bad
(Jeffrey R. Di Leo)
What Writers Can Learn from Breaking Bad: The Risks and Rewards of
Deliberate Disorientation (Neil Connelly)
Our "word ... is half someone else's": Walt and the Literary Echoes of
Whitman (Miguel E.H. Santos-Neves)
"Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck": Pride and Guilt as Narrative
Emotions (Pablo Echart and Alberto N. García)
Say My Name: The Fantasy of Liberated Masculinity (Jason Landrum)
Patriarchy and the "Heisenberg Principle" (Philip Poe)
Walter White: The Psychopath to Whom We Can All Relate? (Meron Wondemaghen)
Breaking Bad Stereotypes about Postpartum: A Case for Skyler White (Rebecca
Price Wood)
Breaking Health Care (Matthew A. Butkus)
Scientific Ethics and Breaking Bad (Ron W. Darbeau)
Talking 'bout Some Heisenberg: Experimenting with the Mad Scientist (Cheryl
D. Edelson)
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index