Seriality, Repetition and Innovation in Breaking Bad’s Recaps and Teasers

Nicola M. Dusi

doi:10.6092/issn.2280-9481/6844

Seriality, Repetition and Innovation in Breaking Bad’s Recaps and Teasers

Autori

Nicola M. Dusi Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Nicola M. Dusi, PhD in Semiotics, is Senior Lecturer of Media Semiotics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Communication and Economics. He is the author of the sociosemiotic essays Il cinema come traduzione (2003); Dal cinema ai media digitali. Logiche del sensibile tra corpi, oggetti, passioni (2014); Contromisure. Trasposizioni e intermedialità (2015). He co-edited Remix-Remake. Pratiche di replicabilità (2006), and Matthew Barney. Polimorfismo, multimodalità, neobarocco (2012). He also co-edited some special 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”.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/6844

Parole chiave:

geography, breaking bad, seriality

Abstract

In this article we face some rhetorical and socio-semiotical operations that contribute to build the serial narrative ecosystems, focusing on the Breaking Bad case. More specifically, we will analyse how the series uses recaps, understood as condensed and functional paratextual thresholds, as opposed to the innovative cold opens or teasers, designed instead as textual narrative expansions. Finally, we will propose a typology of recaps that considers seriality expanded over several seasons.

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Pubblicato

2017-12-18

Come citare

Dusi, N. M. (2016). Seriality, Repetition and Innovation in Breaking Bad’s Recaps and Teasers. Cinergie – Il Cinema E Le Altre Arti, 5(10), 136–147. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/6844