What is it about?
Breaking Bad is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed television shows of recent vintage. What accounts for its popularity and critical success? This essay argues that part of its appeal was that it offered to satisfy Americans' audiences visceral desire for power in the context of electoral and economic upheaval. A white, male identity politics is revealed to work within the show's audiences and critics.
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Most of my research focuses on American conservatism, populism, and political culture. I consider this piece to be a part of this conversation, to the extent that ideas of victimhood and grievance seem to be driving a lot of the American political conversation in the last decade.
Dr. Paul E Johnson
University of Pittsburgh
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This page is a summary of: Walter White(ness) lashes out: Breaking Bad and male victimage, Critical Studies in Media Communication, October 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2016.1238101.
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