It’s (Not) All Good, Man:Better Call Sauland the Nostalgic Reconstruction of an Ever-Longing Character
| Autor: | Brunella Tedesco-Barlocco |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies Art 0508 media and communications Character (mathematics) 050903 gender studies 0509 other social sciences business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Adaptation. 13:358-377 |
| ISSN: | 1755-0645 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/adaptation/apaa009 |
| Popis: | Constantly faced with the lives they cannot lead, Saul Goodman’s alter-egos in Better Call Saul, Jimmy and Gene, are defined by a longing, a nostalgic desire for past identities displayed as recursive through the different periods of his life. Nonetheless, character construction is not the only locus of nostalgia within the universe of Better Call Saul: its condition as an audiovisual multiplicity (being a spin-off and a prequel) entails a nostalgia of its own towards the narrative and aesthetic devices of the Breaking Bad series, from which it stems. Thus, through character and narrative analysis, this essay will ascertain the resources behind Better Call Saul’s configuration as a series that establishes a dialogue with memories of diegetic and televisual pasts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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