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Chutando o balde: representações do criminoso contemporâneo na série Breaking Bad.

Authors :
Brasiliense, Danielle
Source :
Contracampo: Brazilian Journal of Communication. abr-jul2015, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p36-53. 18p.
Publication Year :
2015

Abstract

Breaking Bad is considered a TV series of highly successful in recent years for its great production, the good performance of the actors and their eccentric narrative. The series deals with the issue of crime and conflict of postmodern subjectivity. This article aims to analyze important recurring malaise of contemporary concepts that are discussed in psychiatry and represented midiaticamente in Breaking Bad. In this paper will analyze the conditions of violence and anormality of the actor in a leading role, Walter White, and conflicts arising from the malaise, as the indignity, reflective shame, impulses of desire and anxieties. Breaking Bad is an important product to think poorly of issues, the crimem the monstrosity of contemporary subjects and its relationship to morality. And brings new perspectives on the contradictions of everyday life of crime in contrast to the actual facts framed by the spectacle of newspapers and magazines. This is a landmark of television media representation of violence, drug trafficking and existential conflicts that we live daily in our time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
Portuguese
ISSN :
14147483
Volume :
32
Issue :
1
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Contracampo: Brazilian Journal of Communication
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
108620091
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.22409/contracampo.v0i32.765