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Breaking Bad and Cinematic Television

Spin Offs

By (author) Angelo Restivo
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Duke University Press, North Carolina, United States
Published: 18th Mar 2019
Dimensions: w 139mm h 203mm d 10mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN-10: 1478003081
ISBN-13: 9781478003083
Barcode No: 9781478003083
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With its twisty serialized plots, compelling antiheroes, and stylish production, Breaking Bad has become a signature series for a new golden age of television, in which some premium cable shows have acquired the cultural prestige usually reserved for the cinema. In Breaking Bad and Cinematic Television Angelo Restivo uses the series as a point of departure for theorizing a new aesthetics of television: one based on an understanding of the cinematic that is tethered to affect rather than to medium or prestige. Restivo outlines how Breaking Bad and other contemporary "cinematic" television series take advantage of the new possibilities of postnetwork TV to create an aesthetic that inspires new ways to think about how television engages with the everyday. By exploring how the show presents domestic spaces and modes of experience under neoliberal capitalism in ways that allegorize the perceived twenty-first-century failures of masculinity, family, and the American Dream, Restivo shows how the televisual cinematic has the potential to change the ways viewers relate to and interact with the world.

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"Graduate students, scholars, and professionals interested in how television has changed over- time, the filming and creation of Breaking Bad, and the shift in television should find this book to be in their lane." -- Natalie Brown * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *