Analyzing Mad Men
Critical Essays on the Television Series
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"The 12 critical essays in this collection offer a broad, interdisciplinary approach to this highly relevant television show, examining Mad Men as a cultural barometer for contemporary concerns with consumerism, capitalism and sexism. A detailed cast list and episode guide are included"--Provided
… More »"The 12 critical essays in this collection offer a broad, interdisciplinary approach to this highly relevant television show, examining Mad Men as a cultural barometer for contemporary concerns with consumerism, capitalism and sexism. A detailed cast list and episode guide are included"--Provided by publisher.
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Imprint:
Jefferson, N.C. - McFarland
Pages:
274
ISBN:
9780786447381, 0786447389
Language:
English
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- the contexts of Mad men. "We'll start over like Adam and Eve": the subversion of classic American mythology / Melanie Hernandez and David Thomas Holmberg -- The fall of the organization man: loyalty and conflict in the first season / Maura Grady -- The politics of Mad men. "The good place" and "the place that cannot be": politics, melodrama and utopia / Brenda Cromb -- Unleashing a flow of Desire: Sterling Cooper, desiring-production, and the tenets of late capitalism / David P. Pierson -- Kodak, Jack, and Coke: advertising and Mad-vertising / Jennifer Gillan -- The women of Mad men. Mad men and career women: the best of everything? / Tamar Jeffers McDonald -- "A mother like you": pregnancy, the maternal, and nostalgia / Diana Davidson -- Mad men/mad women: autonomous images of women / Sara Rogers -- Maidenform: temporalities of fashion, femininity, and feminism / Meenasarani Linde Murugan -- Every woman is a Jackie or a Marilyn: the problematics of nostalgia / Tonya Krouse -- The nostalgia of Mad men. Camelot regained / Scott F. Stoddart -- Complicating Camelot: surface realism and deliberate archaism / Christine Sprengler
Introduction -- the contexts of Mad men. "We'll start over like Adam and Eve": the subversion of classic American mythology / Melanie Hernandez and David Thomas Holmberg -- The fall of the organization man: loyalty and conflict in the first season / Maura Grady -- The politics of Mad men. "The good place" and "the place that cannot be": politics, melodrama and utopia / Brenda Cromb -- Unleashing a flow of Desire: Sterling Cooper, desiring-production, and the tenets of late capitalism / David P. Pierson -- Kodak, Jack, and Coke: advertising and Mad-vertising / Jennifer Gillan -- The women of Mad men. Mad men and career women: the best of everything? / Tamar Jeffers McDonald -- "A mother like you": pregnancy, the maternal, and nostalgia / Diana Davidson -- Mad men/mad women: autonomous images of women / Sara Rogers -- Maidenform: temporalities of fashion, femininity, and feminism / Meenasarani Linde Murugan -- Every woman is a Jackie or a Marilyn: the problematics of nostalgia / Tonya Krouse -- The nostalgia of Mad men. Camelot regained / Scott F. Stoddart -- Complicating Camelot: surface realism and deliberate archaism / Christine Sprengler
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edited by Scott F. Stoddart
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x, 274 p. :,ill. ;,23 cm.
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