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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lauren M E Goodlad; Lilya Kaganovsky; Robert A Rushing |
| ISBN: | 9780822354024 0822354020 9780822354185 0822354187 |
| OCLC Number: | 804049407 |
| Description: | x, 421 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Maddening times : Mad men in its history / Dana Polan -- Mad space / Dianne Harris -- Representing the mad margins of the early 1960s : Northern civil rights and the blues idiom / Clarence Lang -- After the sex, what? A feminist reading of reproductive history in Mad Men / Leslie J. Reagan -- The writer as producer; or, The hip figure after HBO / Michael Szalay -- The shock of the banal : Mad Men's progressive realism / Caroline Levine -- Mod men / Jim Hansen -- Swing skirts and swinging singles : Mad men, fashion, and cultural memory / Mabel Rosenheck -- Against depth : looking at surface through the Kodak carousel / Irene V. Small -- "It will shock you how much this never happened" : Antonioni and Mad men / Robert A. Rushing -- Media madness : multiple identity (dis)orders in Mad men / Lynne Joyrich -- "Maidenform" : Masculinity as Masquerade / Lilya Kaganovsky -- History gets in your eyes : Mad men, misrecognition, and the masculine mystique / Jeremy Varon -- The homosexual and the single girl / Alexander Doty -- Mad men's postracial figuration of a racial past / Kent Ono -- The mad men in the attic : seriality and identity in the modern Babylon / Lauren M.E. Goodlad -- Change is gonna come, same as it ever was / Michael Bérubé. |
| Responsibility: | Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky, Robert A. Rushing, editors. |
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"I read this collection with enormous pleasure. The essays are smart, creative, and original. Writing on matters from TV technology to the history of advertising, and from the early civil rights movement to analogies between Jews and nineteenth-century dandies, the contributors illuminate what turns out to be a very rich and charismatic cultural object. I think that Mad Men, Mad World will make a real splash." - Bruce Robbins, author of Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence "The essays assembled in this collection pay careful, astute analytical attention to one of American television's most significant contemporary series. Deepening its approach far beyond that of standard appreciations of 'quality TV,' this book illuminates Mad Men's complex, powerful engagement with capitalism, national identity, race, and gender at a time when these categories are so evidently in flux." - Diane Negra, coeditor of Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture "What a treat for me to delve into this work with so much academic and intellectual rigor - I love it!" - Phil Abraham, director, Mad Men "One of the most critically acclaimed and culturally fetishized television shows of the past decade receives an intellectual deconstruction in this collection of academic essays... Throughout the book are intelligent discussions dissecting the central themes addressed in the show, such as masculinity and feminism, identity, and race relations and representations."--Publishers Weekly, January 2013 "The collection is intended for superfans, TV enthusiasts, or people enrolled in undergraduate media-studies courses... The core tension binding these 16 essays is Mad Men's representation of history. Some contributors believe the show instills within its viewers the illusion of moral superiority; others feel it opens a compelling dialogue around history, experience, and interpretation."--Bitch Magazine, Spring 2013 "Mad Men, Mad World's brilliance is that it analyzes storylines and characters from completely unexpected angles... These are deeply considered pieces that truly spark intellectual discussion. It's a mad world, indeed, but this book helps to bring some order to the chaos." - Natalie Papailiou, Shelf Awareness for Readers "The varying perspectives presented make this work useful supplemental reading for television critics, scholars, and researchers interested in deeper analysis of the show's portrayal of 1960s culture." - Kimberley Bugg, Library Journal Read more...
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