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    Liberal deradicalization in the adaptation of novels to film: defining antiheroes, from Heathcliff to Walter White

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    Author
    Kraft, Benjamin
    Chair
    Carr, Richard
    Committee
    Hirsch, Alexander
    Harney, Eileen
    Keyword
    Antiheroes in literature
    Antiheroes
    Heathcliff
    Walter White
    Film adaptations
    Emily Brontë
    Vince Gilligan
    English literature
    Breaking Bad
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11122/12623
    Abstract
    Using research from the history of the Victorian novel and recent media, I demonstrate the value in re-examining the critical importance of the antihero. Using a methodology of combining neo-Marxian analysis, adaptation studies, and a re-thinking of what constitutes novels and television serials, I explore how antiheroes are defined and why those definitions are often not inclusive to controversial, but seemingly definitional antihero examples. As informed by a critique of how antiheroes are defined, I use my research to discuss the underlying characteristics of the antihero across genres. From a perspective of critiquing liberalism adopted from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad, I structure textual evidence in support of antiheroes being identified according to three traits: sympathy, violence, and radical speech. The literary and real-world impact of each trait is argued according to evidence qualified by a neo-Marxian methodology, using an original synthesis of Louis Althusser's aleatory politics and the Marxist cultural critiques of Raymond Williams. Finally, these three traits are strongly evinced in the real-world systemic critiques of liberalism represented in both Heathcliff and Walter White.
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    Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2021
    Table of Contents
    Introduction: Three Conventions of Antiheroes in Heathcliff -- Section I: Raymond Williams and the 'Liberal Order' -- Section II: A Neo-Marxian Literary Perspective of Deradicalization in Adaptation -- Section III: Adaptation Barriers & Contemporary Media Antiheroism -- Gender Dual-Hierarchy in Breaking Bad -- Radical Content of Breaking Bad: Analyzing Skyler White & White Supremacy -- Conclusion -- Works cited.
    Date
    2021-08
    Type
    Thesis
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