![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomson explores Breaking Bad using a wide-ranging approach and divides the book into seven chapters, focusing on its themes, characters, tone and generic make-up, and goes on to offer a close reading of the symbolic meaning of its mise-en-scène. He recruits his former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), and together they cook and sell crystal meth. Starring Bryan Cranston as Walter White, the affable, high school chemistry teacher and family man, who, on being diagnosed with terminal cancer, becomes a criminal mastermind and drug kingpin. The eminent film journalist and historian David Thomson authors and edits this one-off volume on the critically acclaimed and award winning US TV drama, Breaking Bad, which became a huge hit and gained a loyal fan base. Other interests include Hollywood genre cinema, contemporary British film and quality American US TV. He is a PhD candidate and his research concerns American teen films of the 1980s. Review type: Text | Posted on: 3 March 2016 Breaking Bad: The Official Book by David Thomson, ( Sterling, 2015), 224 pages, ISBN: 978-1454916734 (paperback), £4.99Ībout the Reviewer: Patrick O’Neill has been teaching film studies at Kingston University, London, since 2005 and has also taught at Roehampton University. ![]()
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