Breaking bad and cinematic television / by Restivo, Angelo, 1949-

Subjects: “…Breaking bad (Television program : 2008-2013)…”
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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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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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Second lives : black-market melodramas and the reinvention of television / by Szalay, Michael, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : television's second life -- The gangster mourning play -- The informal abject : housework and reproduction in Weeds and Orange is the new black -- AMC's white-collar supremacy : Breaking bad, Mad men, and Halt and catch fire -- Managed hearts : The Americans and news corporation -- Waiting for the end in Twin peaks, The wire, Queen Sugar, and Atlanta -- Conclusion : streaming and you.…”
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The sky is falling : how vampires, zombies, androids, and superheroes made America great for extremism / by Biskind, Peter

Table of Contents: “…-- Gone fishin' -- Coming apart -- Draining the swamp -- Part III: Breaking bad -- The silence of the lambs -- Beauty in the beast -- License to kill -- Part IV: Heaven can't wait -- What a piece of work was man -- Anywhere but here -- No exit -- Conclusion: The return of the center.…”
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Play all : a bingewatcher's notebook / by James, Clive

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Considering class : theory, culture and the media in the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Deirdre O'Neill and Mike Wayne -- Class theory -- Class and the classical marxist tradition / Joseph Choonara -- Social class and education / Dave Hill -- Marxist class theory : competition, contingency and intermediate class positions / Jonathan Pratschke -- Class segregation / Danny Dorling -- The "secret" of the restoration : increased class exploitation / Maurizio Donato and Roberto Taddeo -- Class and culture -- Exploitation, oppression, and epistemology / Holly Lewis -- Peasants, migrants and self-employed workers : the masks that veil class affiliation in Latin America : the Argentine case / Marina Kabat and Eduardo Sartelli -- Capitalism, class and collective identity: social movements and public services in South Africa / Adrian Murray -- On intellectuals / Deirdre O'Neill and Mike Wayne -- The British working class post-Blair consensus : we do not exist / Lisa Mckenzie -- From class solidarity to cultural solidarity : immigration, crises, and the populist right / Ferruh Yilmaz -- Recovering the Australian working class / Tony Moore, Mark Gibson and Catharine Lumby -- Class and the media -- "Everything changes. everything stays the same" : documenting continuity and change in working class lives / Anita Biressi -- Ghettos and gated communities in the social landscape of television : representations of class in 1982 and 2015 / Fredrik Stiernstedt and Peter Jakobsson -- Class, culture and exploitation : the case of reality tv / Milly Williamson -- Class warfare, the neoliberal man and the political economy of methamphetamine in breaking bad / Michael Seltzer -- "The thing is i'm actually from bromley" : queer/class intersectionality in pride (2014) / Craig Haslop -- Index.…”

Considering class : theory, culture and the media in the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…Class warfare, the neoliberal man and the political economy of methamphetamine in Breaking Bad / Michael Seltzer -- 18. "The thing is I'm actually from Bromley" : queer/class intersectionality in Pride (2014) / Craig Haslop -- Index.…”
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Representing 9/11 : trauma, ideology, and nationalism in literature, film, and television /

Table of Contents: “…Paucity of imagination: stereotypes, public debates, and the limits of ideology in Amy Waldman's The submission / Amir Khadem -- Strangers in a homeland: veterans and "innocensus" in Billy Lynn's Long halftime walk and The yellow birds / Damon Barta -- "Our new customer is the Bush administration": questioning cultural identity and governmental surveillance in Allegra Goodman's The cookbook collector / Paul Petrovic -- "I'm the motherfucker who found this place": locating post-Bin Laden America in Zero dark thirty / Lloyd Isaac Vayo -- From 24 to Homeland: the shift in America's perception of terrorism / Deborah Pless -- Masculinity, marginalization, melancholy, and hyper-protection: the danger that keeps knocking: representations of post-9/11 masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking bad / Shana Kraynak -- Post-closet and post-9/11: the bromantic imagination of disaster in This is the end and I'm so excited! …”