Nothing is relative. An audiovisual study of ethical positioning in Breaking Bad
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28-05-2018
Roberto Gelado Marcos
Javier Figuero Espadas
Ana Lanuza Avello
Abstract
Walter White's particular sense of Ethics has made him one of the most controversial anti-heroes for critics, academics, and spectators. This paper aims at shedding some light on whether the fascination towards White –which may lead to a moral positioning on his behaviour– runs in parallel with a similar attitude on the other end of the audio visual production. In order to do so, aspects such as the shot scales or angles will be examined, as well as camera movements, changes of focus, or the use of light in four narrative moments that are crucial.
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Gelado Marcos, R., Figuero Espadas, J., & Lanuza Avello, A. (2018). Nothing is relative. An audiovisual study of ethical positioning in Breaking Bad. ZER - Journal of Communication Studies, 23(44). https://doi.org/10.1387/zer.18126
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Blevins, J. & Wood, D. (2015). The Methods of Breaking Bad: Essays on Narrative, Character and Ethics. Jefferson (NC): McFarland.
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Gibbs, J. (2013). Mise-en-scène: Film Style and Interpretation. Nueva York: Columbia University Press.
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Canet, F y Prósper, J (2009). Narrativa audiovisual. Estrategias y recursos. Madrid: Editorial Síntesis.
De Los Ríos, I. (2013). Tres objeciones de amor y una ovación desesperada. En Cobo, S. y Hernández-Santaolalla, V. (Eds.), Breaking Bad. 530 gramos (de papel) para serieadictos no rehabilitados (pp. 23-45). Madrid: Errata naturae.
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Echart, P. & García, A. N. (2013). Crime and Punishment: Greed, Pride and Guilt in Breaking Bad. En Alexandra Simón-López & Heidi Yeandle (Eds.), A Critical Approach to the Apocalypse (pp. 205-217). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
Echart, P. & García, A. N. (2015). Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck: Pride and Guilt as Narrative Emotions. En Jacob Blevins & Dafydd Wood (Eds.), The Methods of Breaking Bad: Essays on Narrative, Character and Ethics (pp. 78-93). Jefferson (NC): McFarland.
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Howe, D. (2014). Not Your Average Mexican: Breaking Bad and the Destruction of Latino Stereotipes. En David Pierson (ed.). Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series. Lanham: Lexington Books, pp. 87-102.
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Koepsel, D. R. & Arp, R. (2012). Breaking Bad and Philosophy: Badder Living through Chemistry. Chicago: Open Court.
Kraynak, S. (2015). The Danger that Keeps Knocking. Representations of Post-9/11 Masculinity in Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad. En Paul Petrovic (Ed.), Representing 9/11: Trauma, Ideology, and Nationalism in Literature, Film, and Television, (pp. 131-142). Londres: Rowman & Littlefield.
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Logan, E. (2016). Breaking Bad and Dignity: Unity and Fragmentation in the Serial Television Drama. London: Palgrave Macmillan
Nardi, C. (2014). Mediating Fictional Crime, Music, Morality and Liquid Identification. En David Pierson, (ed.). Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series. Lanham: Lexington Books, pp. 173-90.
Murphy, D. J. (2012). Heisenberg's Uncertain Confession. En David R. Koepsel & Robert Arp (eds.). Breaking Bad and Philosophy: Badder Living through Chemistry. Chicago: Open Court, pp. 15-26.
Palazón, A. (1998) Lenguaje audiovisual. Madrid: Acento Editorial.
Papet, C. & Brillet, A. (2014). Breaking Bad, le culte de l'anti-héros. Paris: Clément.
Pérez De Algaba, C. (2013). Breaking Bad plano a plano. La cámara como constructora de significado. En Cobo, S. y Hernández-Santaolalla, V. (Eds.), Breaking Bad. 530 gramos (de papel) para serieadictos no rehabilitados (pp. 295-311). Madrid: Errata naturae.
Perry, B. & Velarde, R. (2013). Breaking Bad's Addicting Defense of Moral Realism. Christian Research Journal, nº 5.
Pierson, D. P. (2014). Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Ruiz, J. (2015). Dark Matters: Suburban Crime Dramas, and Latinidad in the Golden Age of Cable Television. Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Volumen 40, Número 1, Primavera 2015, 37-62.
Sangro, P. (2011). La práctica del visionado cinematográfico. Madrid: Editorial Síntesis.
Stadler, J. & McWilliam, K. (2009). Screen Media: Analysing Film and Television. Crows Nest (Australia): Allen & Unwin.
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