Breaking Down Breaking Bad: Critical Perspectives

Synopsis

Breaking Bad, The Story Of Walter White's Transformation From An Underappreciated High School Chemistry Teacher To A Murderous Drug Lord, Has Captured The Imagination Of Television Viewers Around The World. This Collection Of Essays Sets The Series In The Context Of American Culture, Analyzing Its Reinvention Of Classic Themes In Literature. -- Publisher Description Introduction / Matt Wanat And Leonard Engel -- Breaking Bad: Morality Play Meets Heinsenberg's Uncertainty Principle: Actions Have Consequences / Leonard Engel -- Negro Y Azul : The Narcocorrido Goes Gothic / Cordelia E. Barrera -- Breaking Bad As Critical Regionalism / Alex Hunt -- On The Red Couch: Breaking Bad And The Refusal Of Therapy / Jeffrey Severs -- Doubling Down On A Handful Of Nothin': The Role Of The Double In Breaking Bad / Brandon O'neal -- Civilization And Its Discontents And Walter White's Individual Disorder In Seasons 1 And 2 Of Breaking Bad / George Alexandre Ayres De Menezes Mousinho -- Breaking Borders And Breaking Bad: Using Unconventional Choruses To Build A Narcotragedy / Maria O'connell -- Breaking The Caper, Subverting The Heist / Matt Wanat -- I Watched Jane Die: Theorizing Breaking Bad's Aesthetic Of Brutality / Ian K. Jensen -- Breaking Bad And Django Unchained: Strange Bedfellows / Glenda Pritchett -- It Wasn't Whole Foods, Was It?: Identity Management, Duplicity, And The False Consciousness Of Surburbia / Brad Klypchak -- The Arc Of W.w.: Imperial Selfhood And Metastatic Poetry In Breaking Bad / Timothy Dansdill. Edited With An Introduction By Matt Wanat And Leonard Engel. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.