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Breaking bad and philosophy : badder living through chemistry / edited by David R. Koepsell and Robert Arp.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 67
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television programs.
- Breaking bad (Television program : 2008- ).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Open Court, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Breaking Bad, hailed by Stephen King, Chuck Klosterman, and many others as the best of all TV dramas, tells the story of a man whose life changes because of the medical death sentence of an advanced cancer diagnosis. The show depicts his metamorphosis from inoffensive chemistry teacher to feared drug lord and remorseless killer. Driven at first by the desire to save his family from destitution, he risks losing his family altogether because of his new life of crime. In defiance of the tradition that viewers demand a TV character who never changes, Breaking Bad is a
- Contents:
- Contents; A Fine Meth We've Gotten Into; ANALYZE THIS; 1 Walt's Rap Sheet; 2 Heisenberg's Uncertain Confession; 3 Was Skyler's Intervention Ethical? Hell, It Shouldn't Even Be Legal!; EQUATIONS MUST BALANCE; 4 Finding Happiness in a Black Hat; 5 Hurtling Towards Death; 6 Macbeth on Ice; THERE""S METH IN MY MADNESS; 7 Walter White's Will to Power; 8 Better than Human; NOTHING HERE BUT CHEMISTRY; 9 The Riddle of Godfather Gus; 10 If Walt's Breaking Bad, Maybe We Are Too; 11 I Appreciate the Strategy; NOW YOU'RE COOKING; 12 What's So Bad About Meth?; 13 It's Arbitrary?
- 14 Does Cooking Make Walt a Bad Guy?FREE RADICALS; 15 Been Through the Desert on a Horse with No Name; 16 You're Supposed to Be a Scientist; 17 Breaking Bonds; PINK, WHITE, AND BLUE; 18 Walter White's American Vice; 19 Meth, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; Spontaneous Reactions; The Bad Elements; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8126-9790-1
- OCLC:
- 796384323
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