Source: www.bu.edu - Thursday, November 29, 2018
Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of visits to one class, on one day , in search of those building blocks at BU. The chemistry involved in dissolving a corpse is nowhere mentioned in the syllabus for The Myth of the Family in Classical American Literature, Film, and TV . But it was on the agenda when Breaking Bad director Adam Bernstein visited the class just before Thanksgiving. He screened a gruesome scene he directed, where school-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin Walter White teaches his surrogate son a lesson about the importance of chemistry in trying to dispose of a body without leaving a trace. Susan Mizruchi, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of English and director of the BU Center for the Humanities , invited Bernstein to her class, which focuses on depictions of the American family in Breaking Bad and another binge-worthy TV classic, The Wire , as contrasted with films ( The Godfather , Boys Don’t Cry ) and canonical novels ( The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , The Bluest Eye ) . Two hours later, the students had learned some of the complexities of Breaking Bad ’s main characters and themes and the behind-the-scenes realities of how they were brought to the screen. “When I was a kid, TV was just junk,” says Mizruchi, the William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities. “The premise of this course is that these TV serials are the lead
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Class by class, lecture by lecture, question asked by question answered, an education is built. This is one of a series of visits to one class, on one day , in search of those building blocks at BU. The chemistry involved in dissolving a corpse is nowhere mentioned in the syllabus for The Myth of the Family in Classical American Literature, Film, and TV . But it was on the agenda when Breaking Bad director Adam Bernstein visited the class just before Thanksgiving. He screened a gruesome scene he directed, where school-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin Walter White teaches his surrogate son a lesson about the importance of chemistry in trying to dispose of a body without leaving a trace. Susan Mizruchi, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of English and director of the BU Center for the Humanities , invited Bernstein to her class, which focuses on depictions of the American family in Breaking Bad and another binge-worthy TV classic, The Wire , as contrasted with films ( The Godfather , Boys Don’t Cry ) and canonical novels ( The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , The Bluest Eye ) . Two hours later, the students had learned some of the complexities of Breaking Bad ’s main characters and themes and the behind-the-scenes realities of how they were brought to the screen. “When I was a kid, TV was just junk,” says Mizruchi, the William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities. “The premise of this course is that these TV serials are the lead
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