I explore the ways in which Better Call Saul deconstructs the American Dream and, more broadly, how the Dream exploits the very people it is supposed to uplift.


Bibliography


James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America, 1931


Noam Chomsky, Profit over People: Neoliberalism and the Global Order, 1999


Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, 2012


Jennifer Hochschild, Facing up to the American dream, 1995


David Kamp, Rethinking the American Dream, 2009


Jason Mittell, Lengthy Interactions with Hideous Men: Walter White and the Serial Poetics of Television Anti-Heroes, 2014


Jason Mittell, Better Call Saul: The Prestige Spinoff, 2013


David Pierson, Breaking Bad: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series, 2013


Lawrence R. Samuel, The American Dream: A Cultural History, 2012


Music


The Winner Takes It All, Abba, 1980
Money, Money, Money, Abba, 1976