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“Breaking Bad” Contracts: Bargaining For Masculinity In Popular Culture, Lenora Ledwon
“Breaking Bad” Contracts: Bargaining For Masculinity In Popular Culture, Lenora Ledwon
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
This Article examines the award-winning television show, Breaking Bad, to illustrate how the idea of a contract in popular culture can become inflected with a style of retrograde masculinity. Deals in Breaking Bad take place in the classic contract imaginary, which resembles the classic Western shootout: two antagonists face each other down in a duel. The show interrogates the frontier thesis, with its links to the American Dream and dangerous masculinities, through the ruthless contracts of Walter White.