In my thesis I examine the crisis of masculinity and family in AMC’s TV seriesBreaking Bad. In prior research, the protagonist Walter White has been analyzed as aman who wants to escape his responsibilities and the disappointments of his family life.However, in this thesis he will be shown to be simultaneously an advocate for the idealizedfamily as well as for the idealized role of a man. The crisis of the masculinitytherefore originates in the incoherency of the new idealized role of father and the idealizedrole of the man. Following the introduction and the research overview, the firstchapter of this thesis is about the family in Breaking Bad. Therefore, a detailed analysisof the conditions of the Whites’ family life and an examination of Walter White’s dissatisfactionwith these structures will be given.For this purpose the theories regarding the idealized family, and the changethereof, from Stephanie Coontz, Robert Hettlage, and Christine Zimmermann will beemployed. The second chapter will examine Walter White’s break-out from these conditionsand how it impacts the family life of the Whites. To this effect, theories aboutmasculinity and power by Heinrich Popitz and Christoph Kucklick will be used to describeand analyse Walter White’s role as a man and why idealized masculinity and thefamily structures cannot be combined. For the analysis I inquire different scenes fromthe whole series.I conclude that the crisis of the masculinity in Breaking Bad shows a mutual relationbetween family and role of the man. On the one hand, the crisis is released becauseof the non-existence of the idealized family and it therefore destroys the idea ofthe idealized role of the male. On the other hand, the pursuit of the role of the male destroysthe family structures as a whole. Does the insecurity of the man in a time ofchanging roles turn out to create an ;;immoral gender”?
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