Mad Men, Mad World

Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s
Herausgeber: Goodlad, Lauren M E

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Produktbeschreibung

Since the show's debut in 2007, Mad Men has invited viewers to immerse themselves in the lush period settings, ruthless Madison Avenue advertising culture, and arresting characters at the center of its 1960s fictional world. Mad Men, Mad World is a comprehensive analysis of this groundbreaking TV series. Scholars from across the humanities consider the AMC drama from a fascinating array of perspectives, including fashion, history, architecture, civil rights, feminism, consumerism, art, cinema, and the serial format, as well as through theoretical frames such as critical race theory, gender, queer theory, global studies, and psychoanalysis. In the introduction, the editors explore the show's popularity; its controversial representations of race, class and gender; its powerful influence on aesthetics and style; and its unique use of period historicism and advertising as a way of speaking to our neoliberal moment. Mad Men, Mad World includes an interview with Phil Abraham, an award-winning Mad Men director and cinematographer. Taken together, the essays demonstrate that understanding Mad Men means engaging the show not only as a reflection of the 1960s but also as a commentary on the present day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354185
• ISBN-10: 0822354187
• Artikelnr.: 36265260

Autorenporträt

Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky, and Robert A. Rushing, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction / Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky, Robert A. Rushing 1
Part I. Mad Worlds
1. Maddening Times: Mad Men in Its History / Dana Polan 35
2. Mad Space / Dianne Harris 53
3. Representing the Mad Margins of the Early 1960s: Northern Civil Rights
and the Blues Idiom / Clarence Lange 73
4. After the Sex, What? A Feminist Reading of Reproductive History in Mad
Men / Leslie J. Reagan 92
5. The Writer as Producer; or, The Hip Figure after HBO / Michael Szalay
111
Part II.Mad Aesthetics
6. The Shock of the Banal: Mad Men's Progressive Realism / Caroline Levine
133
7. Mod Men / Jim Hansen 145
8. Swing Skirts and Swinging Singles: Mad Men, Fashion, and Cultural Memory
/ Mabel Rosenheck 161
9. Against Depth: Looking at Surface through the Kodak Carousel / Irene V.
Small 181
10. "It Will Shock You How Much This Never Happened": Antonioni and Mad Men
/ Robert A. Rushing 192
Part III. Made Men
11. Media Madness: Multiple Identity (Dis)Orders in Mad Men / Lynne Joyrich
213
12. "Maidenform": Masculinity as Masquerade / Lilya Kaganovsky 238
13. History Gets in Your Eyes: Mad Men, Misrecognition, and the Masculine
Mystique / Jeremy Varon 257
14. The Homosexual and the Single Girl / Alexander Doty 279
15. Mad Men's Postracial Figuration of a Racial Past / Kent Ono 300
16. The Mad Men in the Attic: Seriality and Identity in the Modern Bablyon
/ Lauren M. E. Goodlad 320
Afterword. A Change Is Gonna Come, Same as It Ever Was / Michael Bérubé 345
Appendix A. A Conversation with Phil Abraham, Director and Cinematographer
/ Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Jeremy Varon, and Carl Lehnen 361
Appendix B. List of Mad Men Episodes 381
Contributors 411
Index 415