Breaking Bad (eBook)

Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series

David P. Pierson (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
230 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9780739179253 (ISBN)

Infos

Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series, edited by David P. Pierson, examines the social contexts, cultural politics, and visual, aural, and narrative style of AMC's original series Breaking Bad. This collection of critical essays explores such topics as neo-liberalism, spatiality and temporality, modern science and its principles, the representation of masculinity, Latinos, and disabilities, the function of narrative teasers and songs, and the role of emotions as dramatic action in the series.

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Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series, edited by David P. Pierson, explores the contexts, politics, and style of AMC's original series Breaking Bad. The book's first section locates and addresses the series from several contemporary social contexts, including neo-liberalism, its discourses and policies, the cultural obsession with the economy of time and its manipulation, and the epistemological principles and assumptions of Walter White's criminal alias Heisenberg. Section two investigates how the series characterizes and intersects with current cultural politics, such as male angst and the re-emergence of hegemonic masculinity, the complex portrayal of Latinos, and the depiction of physical and mental impairment and disability. The final section takes a close look at the series' distinctive visual, aural, and narrative stylistics. Under examination are Breaking Bad's unique visual style whereby image dominates sound, the distinct role and use of beginning teaser segments to disorient and enlighten audiences, the representation of geographic space and place, the position of narrative songs to complicate viewer identification, and the integral part that emotions play as a form of dramatic action in the series.

Autor

David Pierson is an associate professor of media studies and chair of the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Southern Maine.

Inhalt

Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Contexts of Breaking BadBreaking Neoliberal?: Neo-liberalism, its Discourses, and Breaking BadDavid P. PiersonMultiple Existences and the Economy of Time in Breaking BadDustin FreelyHeisenberg, Epistemological Implications of a Criminal PseudonymAlberto BrodescoThe Politics of Breaking BadTaking Control: Male Angst and the Re-emergence of Hegemonic Masculinity in Breaking BadBrian FaucetteNot Your Average Mexican: Breaking Bad and the Destruction of Latino StereotypesAndrew HoweA Life Not Worthy Living Jami L. AndersonThe Style of Breaking BadBreaking the WavesPierre Barrette and Yves PicardUncertain Beginnings: Breaking Bad's Episodic OpeningsRossend Sanchez BaroBuying the House: Place in Breaking Bad Ensley F. Guffey Mediating Fictional Crime, Music, Morality and Liquid Identification in Breaking BadCarlo Nardi Feeling Bad: Emotions and Narrativity in Breaking BadDeidre PribramMain Cast, Production History, and Episode Guide IndexAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.11.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 6 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 3 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 2 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: AMC • Breaking Bad • Crime • Crystal Meth • Cultural Studies • drug culture • Drugs • Drug War • Film, Television, and Stage • Meth • methamphetamines • TV
• ISBN-13: 9780739179253 / 9780739179253