Pop culture and the dark side of the American dream : con men, gangsters, drug lords, and zombies / by Cantor, Paul A. 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Fields and the American dream -- "I believe in America": the Godfather films and the immigrant's tragedy -- The Macbeth of meth: Breaking bad and the tragedy of Walter White -- The apocalyptic strain in popular culture: the American nightmare becomes the American dream.…”
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Pop culture and the dark side of the American dream : con men, gangsters, drug lords, and zombies / by Cantor, Paul A. 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Fields and the American dream -- "I believe in America": the Godfather films and the immigrant's tragedy -- The Macbeth of meth: Breaking bad and the tragedy of Walter White -- The apocalyptic strain in popular culture: the American nightmare becomes the American dream.…”
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Political pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession : prestige TV and the contradictions of the "liberal" class / by Samuels, Robert, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Sopranos : make TV elite again -- Breaking Bad : from Walter White to the Alt-Right -- The Wire and the death of liberal institutions -- House of Cards and the fall of the liberal class -- Dexter : artistic violence as class distinction -- Game of Thrones : climate change, gender wars, and the fictionalized past -- Conclusion : Succession and the metafictional political present.…”
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Listening to China's cultural revolution : music, politics, and cultural continuities /

Table of Contents: “…A diachronic study of "Jingju Yangbanxi" model Peking opera music / Dai Jiafang, translated by Lau Sze Wing -- From confusianist meditative tool to maoist revolutionary weapon : the seven-stringed zither (Qin) in the cultural revolution / Tsan-Huang Tsai -- Breaking bad : sabotaging the production of the hero in the amateur performance of "Yangbanxi" / Laurence Coderre -- Third world internationalism : films and operas in the Chinese cultural revolution / Ban Wang -- Singing in the dark : film and cultural revolution musical culture / Paul Clark -- Dialects as untamable : how to revolutionize Cantones opera? …”
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