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  Skyler's Bed

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  September 13, 2013

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  in the season, she retreats to her bed passively in shock after learning that Walt is a murderer who ... Jesse as another victim of Walt’s abusive manipulation. I yearn for a scene where Skyler learns more of ...
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  Quality TV's Appropriation of Fan Culture

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  Maria Suzanne Boyd Georgia State University

  September 12, 2013

  that buzz.  And to assist in generating even more conversation, AMC is now running an after-show hosted ...
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  Quality television-by-numbers: Veena Sud and AMC's failed products and faulty assumptions

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  November 02, 2011

  2 comments

  it simultaneously delays any substantial resolution. The problem is not that we don’t learn who ...
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  Process Makes Perfect: Breaking Bad's Visual and Narrative Obsession

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  Pete Rorabaugh Kennesaw State University

  September 09, 2013

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  a broken plate to learn that Krazy 8, who is restrained in the basement, has fashioned himself a weapon. In ...
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  Serial Characterization and Inferred Interiority

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  December 14, 2011

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  Serial Characterization and Inferred Interiority seriality Popular Seriality interiority character Breaking Bad Curator's Note One great challenge facing moving image media is portraying a character’s interior thoughts and emotions. While literature ...
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  AMC’s Breaking Bad and the Myth of the Frontier

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  Lisa Weckerle Kutztown University

  April 29, 2018

  7 comments

  AMC’s Breaking Bad and the Myth of the Frontier Breaking Bad colonization New Visions of the Old West Curator's Note According to Slotkin, “…the Myth [of the Frontier] represented the redemption of American spirit or fortune as something to be achiev ...