Mad Men: Dream Come True TV

ISBN-13: 9781848853799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str.

Gary R Edgerton

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Since premiering in July 2007, Mad Men has won many awards and been syndicated across the globe. Its imprint is evident throughout contemporary culture--from TV advertisements and magazine covers to designer fashions and online debate. Its creator, Matthew Weiner, a former executive producer on The Sopranos, has again created compelling, complex characters, this time in the sophisticated, go-go world of Madison Avenue of the 1960s, with smoking, drinking, and the playing out of prejudices and anxieties of an era long neglected in popular culture. As Edgerton and a host of other well-known contributors demonstrate here, Mad Men is a zeitgeist show of the early twenty-first century.

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Acknowledgments Contributors Creative Team and Cast List Foreword: From Rod Serling to Roger Sterling Robert Thompson Introduction: When Our Parents Became Us Gary R. Edgerton Part 1-Industry and Authorship 1. The Selling of Mad Men: A Production History Gary Edgerton 2. Women on the Verge of the Second Wave: At Home and At Work in Mad Men Mary Beth Haralovich 3. ‘If It’s Too Easy, Then Usually There’s Something Wrong’: An Interview with Mad Men’s Executive Producer Scott Hornbacher Brian Rose Part 2-Visual and Aural Stylistics and Influences 4. ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’: Historicizing Visual Style in Mad Men Jeremy Butler 5. Uneasy Listening: Music, Sound, and Criticizing Camelot in Mad Men Popular Music and Social Change in Mad Men Tim Anderson 6. Suggestive Silence in Season One Maurice Yacowar Part 3-Narrative Dynamics and Genealogy 7. Learning to Live with Television in Mad Men Horace Newcomb 8. Space Ships and Time Machines: Mad Men and the Serial Condition Sean O’Sullivan 9. ‘The Catastrophe of My Personality’: Frank O’Hara, Don Draper, and the Poetics of Mad Men David Lavery Part 4-Sexual Politics and Gender Roles 10. Mad Women Mimi White 11. The Best of Everything: The Limits of Being a Working Girl in Mad Men Kim Akass and Janet McCabe 12. Men Behaving as Boys: The Cultural Matrix of Mad Men William Siska Part 5-Suburbia, Advertising, and the American Dream 13. The Strange Career of Mad Men: Race, Paratexts, and Civil Rights Memory Allison Perlman 14. Don Draper Confronts the Maddest Men of the Sixties: Bob Dylan and George Lois and Bob Dylan Ron Simon 15. Mad Men: A Roots Tale of the Information Age David Marc Notes Episode Guide Selected Film and TV Programs Selected Bibliography General Index Television Series Index