Pierre Barrette holds a PhD in semiotics. He is professor at Université du Québec à Montréal (École des médias), where he teaches courses in television and film studies. He publishes extensively in the field of semiotics and media analysis. From 2003 to 2008, he participated in the preparation of Les Cahiers du Gerse, a scholarly journal in film and communication studies published by the Presses de l’Université du Québec. He was a member of the editorial board of the film journal 24 Images for 12 years and is now head of the Media and Society section in the online journal Hors Champ, in which he has published more than 300 articles about film and television.
Alberto Brodesco earned his PhD in Audiovisual Studies of Cinema, Music, and Communication from the University of Udine. He currently works at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento. He has published a book and a number of papers on the representation of technoscience in film and television. His other research interest relates to the triad of film, body and violence. His bibliography and some open access articles are available at http://unitn.academia.edu/AlbertoBrodesco.
Brian Faucette teaches English and film courses at a community college. He holds a doctorate in Film and Media studies from the University of Kansas. His research focuses on the representation of American masculinities in classical and contemporary American film and television. His publications consist of numerous journal articles and book chapters, including one on alternative masculinities in Valentino in Ken Russelclass="underline" Re-Viewing Britain’s Last Mannerist.
Dustin Freeley has been lecturer in the English Departments of Hunter College and Berkeley College, where he taught various courses in literature, composition, research writing, critical analysis, speech, and persuasive communication. He is a contributing writer to NextProjection.com and a co-founder, writer, and editor of MoviesAboutGladiators.com. He is also a member of the Online Film Critics Society and has an essay titled “Reflections on Genocide in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining” being published in late 2013.
Ensley F. Guffey is a non-traditional graduate student in American history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 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 articles on the television shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Farscape. He and his wife, K. Dale Koontz, are currently co-authoring Wanna Cook? The Unofficial Guide to Breaking Bad.
Andrew Howe is associate professor of history at La Sierra University, where he teaches courses in American history, popular culture, and film studies. Particular areas of interest include science fiction, cultural views of nature, and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Recent articles published or accepted for publication include a book chapter on race and racism in Star Wars (Sex, Politics, and Religion in Star Wars), a book chapter on Avatar as a post-9/11 Mohican narrative (The Post-9/11 Western), and innovative pedagogical techniques for teaching film clips in history courses (International Journal of the Humanities). He is currently working on a book-length project on how communities react to biological invasions.
Carlo Nardi is associate lecturer at the University of Northampton. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters. His work has focused on the use of technology from a sensory perspective, authorship in relation to technological change, coercive music practices, the organization of labor in music-making and Indian film music. In 2011, he was elected General Secretary of IASPM, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
Yves Picard is professor at Cégep André-Laurendeau in Montreal, Canada. He has been teaching for more than thirty years. Recently, he published a book on Quebec TV: Quand le petit écran devient grand. This work is the first draft of his doctoral thesis (Université de Montréal): De la télé-oralité à la télé-visualité (2013). That same year, he co-directed an issue of CiNéMAS, «Fiction télévisuelle: approches esthétiques» and an international colloquium on La télévision des premiers temps.
E. Diedre Pribram is associate professor and chairperson in the Communication Department at Molloy College, New York. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters examining the way emotions are depicted in film and television, female spectatorship, and screenwriting. Her recent publications include Emotions, Genre, Justice in Film and Television and co-editor with Jennifer Harding of Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader.
Index
1
12-step programs, 1.1-1.2
2
24, 1 , 2
A
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8
Alcatraz, 1
Ally McBeal, 1
American Civil Rights Movement, 1
AMC, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7.1-7.2 , 8 , 9 , 10
branding practices, 1.1-1.2 , 2
early history, 1.1-1.2
transformation and programming, 1.1-1.2 , 2
American Southwest, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7
amoral familism, 1.1-1.2 , 2
Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, 1
Assassin of Youth, 1
B
Babylon 5, 1
Barthes, Roland, 1 , 2
Battlestar Galactica, 1
Bazin, Andre, 1
Being in Time, 1
Bergson, Henri, 1 , 2
A
A Better Tomorrow, 1
T
The Big Bang Theory, 1
The Birth of a Nation, 1
B
Blow, 1
Boetticher, Gale (series character), 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9.1-9.2
bottle episode, 1 , 2
Bourdieu, Pierre, 1
Breaking Bad as black comedy, 1 , 2.1-2.2 , 3
colloquial term, 1
controversy, 1
Emmy awards, 1
pilot episode, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4 , 5 , 6.1-6.2 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12.1-12.2 , 13.1-13.2 , 14 , 15.1-15.2
series creation, 1
violent content, 1
Broken Trail, 1
Bush, George W. administration, 1
Butler, Jeremy, 1.1-1.2 , 2
Butler, Judith, 1
C
Caldwell, John Thorton, 1.1-1.2 , 2 , 3.1-3.2 , 4
cancer as metaphor, 1
Cantillo, Brock, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
capitalism, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7.1-7.2 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11
Carter, Chris, 1 , 2
Casino, 1
chemistry as subject, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4
China Syndrome, 1
Chinese Opium Den, 1
cocaine, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Coen brothers (Joel and Ethan), 1 , 2
cold open See teaser segment
Cranston, Bryan, 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10
acting in Breaking Bad, 1
directing, 1