Breaking Bad: Intertextuality, Intermediality and Crossmediality, and the Taste of Unpredictability

  • Nicola M. Dusi UNIMORE, Dipartimento di Comunicazione ed Economia Via Allegri 9 - 42121 - Reggio Emilia, Italy
Keywords: Tv series, Breaking Bad, Cinematic tv, Complex tv, Intertextuality, intermediality, Crossmediality, Transmedia storytelling, Quotation, Remix, Crossover

Abstract

We will explore some items of transmedia storytelling, intertextuality and intermediality in Breaking Bad, the US TV series that ran from 2008 to 2013 and won multiple awards for directing and screenplay. Nowadays, contemporary tv series are studied as “complex tv” or “serial medial ecosystems” and Breaking Bad has been often defined both “cinematic” then a “postmodern western”. Therefore, we will analyze some socio-cultural and semiotic mechanisms of its relations to movies, to genres like western and noir, to music video, to advertisements and so on, looking for an innovative intermedial way of serial tv fiction, which works crossing the borders between media

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Author Biography

Nicola M. Dusi, UNIMORE, Dipartimento di Comunicazione ed Economia Via Allegri 9 - 42121 - Reggio Emilia, Italy

Nicola M. Dusi, PhD in Semiotics, is Senior Lecturer of Media Semiotics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), Department of Communication and Economics. He is the author of the books: Il cinema come traduzione (Turin: Utet, 2003); Dal cinema ai media digitali (Milan: Mimesis, 2014); Contromisure. Trasposizione e intermedialità (Milan: Mimesis, 2015). He edited many media studies works (academic journals and books), as the books Remix-Remake. Pratiche di replicabilità (Rome: Meltemi, 2006); Matthew Barney. Polimorfismo, multimodalità, neobarocco (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2012); and as the monographic issues of international journals: Versus (85-87, 2000) dedicated to "Intersemiotic Translation"; Iris (30, 2004) dedicated to "Film Adaptation: Methodological Questions, Aesthetic Questions"; Degrés  (141, 2010) about  "Dance Research and Transmedia Practices".  

Email: 
nicolamaria.dusi@unimore.it

 

 

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Published
2016-07-21
How to Cite
Dusi, N. (2016). Breaking Bad: Intertextuality, Intermediality and Crossmediality, and the Taste of Unpredictability. Between, 6(11). https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/2213