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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 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Maddening times : Mad men in its history / Dana Polan -- Mad space / Dianne Harris -- Representing the mad margins of the early sixties : 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 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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"A lot is packed into this volume, and nobody is likely to reach the end feeling shortchanged. . . . This is no giddy fanzine, to be sure, but for folks who take their Mad Men seriously it opens worthwhile paths of inquiry." -- James M. Keller * Santa Fe New Mexican * "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. . . . [It] accomplishes the admirable feat of offering considerable critique and examination from a standpoint of admiration and fandom." * Publishers Weekly * "There is much else in the book that I found interesting and useful in thinking about Mad Men, and I think it will be stimulating to readers outside the ranks of aca fandom." -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed * "An interesting conversation." -- Candace Opper * Bitch * "Just as Mad Men charms its viewers by using sex, drugs, snappy banter, and pretty people to make heavy topics (sexism, racism, dreams diffused) palatable, the editors of Mad Men, Mad World trust that some TV glamour will get readers interested in digesting academic theories. It's not wrong. Full of dense, fascinating writing, Mad Men, Mad World, from Duke University Press, takes stock of `sex, politics, style & the 1960s' in a series of essays by academics, theorizing about Mad Men." -- Diana Clarke * Village Voice * "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 "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 * Read more...
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