Matt Zoller Seitz

Mad Men Carousel (eBook, ePUB)

The Complete Critical Companion
Illustrator: Max Dalton

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Mad Men Carousel is an episode-by-episode guide to all seven seasons of AMC's Mad Men. This book collects TV and movie critic Matt Zoller SeitzâEUR(TM)s celebrated Mad Men recapsâEUR"as featured on New York magazine's Vulture blogâEUR"for the first time, including never-before-published essays on the showâEUR(TM)s first three seasons. SeitzâEUR(TM)s writing digs deep into the showâEUR(TM)s themes, performances, and filmmaking, examining complex and sometimes confounding aspects of the series. The complete seriesâEUR"all seven seasons and ninety-two episodesâEUR"is covered.
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Each episode review also includes brief explanations of locations, events, consumer products, and scientific advancements that are important to the characters, such as P.J. ClarkeâEUR(TM)s restaurant and the old Penn Station; the inventions of the birth control pill, the Xerox machine, and the Apollo Lunar Module; the release of the BeatlesâEUR(TM) Revolver and the Beach BoysâEUR(TM) Pet Sounds; and all the wars, protests, assassinations, and murders that cast a bloody pall over a chaotic decade.Â

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Mad Men Carousel is named after an iconic moment from the showâEUR(TM)s first-season finale, âEURoeThe Wheel,âEUR? wherein Don delivers an unforgettable pitch for a new slide projector thatâEUR(TM)s centered on the idea of nostalgia: âEURoethe pain from an old wound.âEUR? This book will soothe the most ardent Mad Men fanâEUR(TM)s nostalgia for the show. New viewers, who will want to binge-watch their way through one of the most popular TV shows in recent memory, will discover a spoiler-friendly companion to one of the most multilayered and mercurial TV shows of all time.Â

It's the perfect gift for Mad Men fans and obsessives.

Also available from Matt Zoller Seitz: The Oliver Stone Experience, The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads, The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Wes Anderson Collection.
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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abrams
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781613129364
• Artikelnr.: 44175909

Autorenporträt

Matt Zoller Seitz is the television critic for New York magazine and the editor in chief of RogerEbert.com. He is the author of The Wes Anderson Collection and The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel. He lives in Brooklyn.; Megan Abbott is the Edgar®-winning author of the novels Queenpin, The Song Is You, Die a Little, Bury Me Deep, The End of Everything, Dare Me, and her latest, The Fever, which was chosen as one of the Best Books of the Summer by the New York Times, People magazine, and Entertainment Weekly, and one of the Best Books of the Year by Amazon, National Public Radio, the Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, the Believer, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Abbott is also the author of a nonfiction book, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, and the editor of A Hell of a Woman, an anthology of female crime fiction. She has been nominated for many awards, including three Edgar® Awards, the Hammett Prize, the Shirley Jackson Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Folio Prize. She lives in New York City.; Max Dalton is a graphic artist living in Buenos Aires, Argentina by way of Barcelona, New York, and Paris. He has published a few books and illustrated some others, including The Wes Anderson Collection (Abrams, 2012) and The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Abrams 2014). Max started painting in 1977 and since 2008, he has been creating posters about music, movies, and pop culture.