The 12 essays in this volume bring together English scholars from the US, Brazil, and Canada to examine Breaking Bad from various perspectives. They discuss how the show is a contemporary
version of a morality play, the regeneration of Walter White through violence and frontier gothic devices, the role of the setting of New Mexico, the rejection of therapy in the show, the use
of the doubles like Heisenberg and others, the element of discontent in Walter White, how the show is a modern take on classical Greek tragedy, the use of different genres in the show, the
experience of brutality, comparison between Vince Gilligan and Quentin Tarantino (focusing on Django Unchained) in their use of genres, identity and duplicity in the character Marie, and the
role of Walt Whitman. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
