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Format: 1 online resource (433 p.)

ISBN: 1-4780-9210-6

Content: 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 also 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. Contributors. Michael Bérubé, Alexander Doty, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Jim Hansen, Dianne Harris, Lynne Joyrich, Lilya Kaganovsky, Clarence Lang, Caroline Levine, Kent Ono, Dana Polan, Leslie Reagan, Mabel Rosenheck, Robert A. Rushing, Irene Small, Michael Szalay, Jeremy Varon

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Part one Mad Worlds -- , One Maddening Times Mad Men in Its History -- , Two Mad Space -- , Three Representing the Mad Margins of the Early 1960s Northern Civil Rights and the Blues Idiom -- , Four After the Sex, What? A Feminist Reading of Reproductive History in Mad Men -- , Five The Writer as Producer; or, The Hip Figure after HBO -- , Part Two Mad aesthetiCs -- , Six The Shock of the Banal Mad Men’s Progressive Realism -- , Seven Mod Men -- , Eight Swing Skirts and Swinging Singles Mad Men, Fashion, and Cultural Memory -- , Nine Against Depth Looking at Surface through the Kodak Carousel -- , Ten “It Will Shock You How Much This Never Happened” Antonioni and Mad Men -- , Part three Made Men -- , Eleven Media Madness Multiple Identity (Dis)Orders in Mad Men -- , Twelve “Maidenform” Masculinity as Masquerade -- , Thirteen History Gets in Your Eyes Mad Men, Misrecognition, and the Masculine Mystique -- , Fourteen The Homosexual and the Single Girl -- , Fifteen Mad Men’s Postracial Figuration of a Racial Past -- , Sixteen The Mad Men in the Attic Seriality and Identity in the Modern Babylon -- , Afterword A Change Is Gonna Come, Same as It Ever Was -- , Appendix A A Conversation with Phil Abraham, Director and Cinematographer -- , Appendix B List of Mad Men Episodes -- , Works Cited -- , Contributors -- , Index

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781478092100