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Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series Hardcover – November 21, 2013
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- Print length232 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLexington Books
- Publication dateNovember 21, 2013
- Dimensions6.32 x 0.89 x 9.19 inches
- ISBN-100739179241
- ISBN-13978-0739179246
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The book is useful for students and researchers interested in Breaking Bad and provides an excellent reading list for courses that analyze the series. Interdisciplinary in scope, the essays approach Breaking Bad from political economy, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives. . . .Pierson’s anthology is a valuable first step in critical evaluations of Breaking Bad. The book’s central strength is its interdisciplinary approach. . . .Pierson compiles a useful and thought-provoking collection in this anthology. Just as The Sopranos provoked substantial media scholarship about American culture, Breaking Bad will certainly inspire a wealth of academic work for students and researchers alike. Pierson’s contribution is an admirable start. ― Critical Studies in Media Communication
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- Publisher : Lexington Books; Illustrated edition (November 21, 2013)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 232 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0739179241
- ISBN-13 : 978-0739179246
- Item Weight : 1.03 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.32 x 0.89 x 9.19 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,667,221 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,676 in TV History & Criticism
- #5,657 in Violence in Society (Books)
- #6,453 in Communication Reference (Books)
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Ensley F. Guffey has at one time or another been a chef, waiter, bartender, bouncer, car rental agent, cardiac model, restaurant manager, gas station attendant, electronic gambling associate, and ditch-digger third class. In recent years he has become an academic late bloomer, and in a burst of energy has completed his AA, BA, an MA in History, and an MLIS. He is currently undergoing treatment for allergic reactions to the words “class,” “coursework,” and “higher education.”
Throughout his adventures, in spite (or because) of bad livers, broken hearts, and other ailments common to the modern world, Ensley has managed to marry well, and to help raise one of the great American mutts, and three cats of indeterminate, though likely royal, lineage. He has also always been a reader, writer, and TV and film watcher par-excellence. He has presented papers at regional, national, and international academic conferences on topics ranging from the American industrialist Samuel Colt to the television show Breaking Bad, and he has published peer-reviewed scholarly essays on Babylon 5, Breaking Bad, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Farscape, and Marvel's the Avengers. With his wife, K. Dale Koontz, Ensley is co-author of Wanna Cook? The Complete, Unofficial Companion to Breaking Bad, and A Dream Given Form: An Unofficial Guide to the Universe of Babylon 5, both of which are available right here on Amazon!
Since 2020, Ensley has been the tribal archivist for the Catawba Indian Nation, working out of the Catawba Nation Archives in the Catawba Cultural Center on the Old Reservation outside of Rock Hill, South Carolina. There he cares for a multi-media collection including everything from documents to pottery to projectile points to traditional regalia to audio and video on a variety of formats. He can generally be found in his basement lair in the archives, where it is always a civilized 65 degrees Fahrenheit and 40% relative humidity – as it should be.

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