In this comprehensive analysis of the TV series Mad Men, scholars explore the groundbreaking drama in relation to fashion, history, architecture, civil rights, feminism, consumerism, art, cinema, and the serial format
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In this comprehensive analysis of the TV series Mad Men, scholars explore the groundbreaking drama in relation to fashion, history, architecture, civil rights, feminism, consumerism, art, cinema, and the serial format
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky, Robert A. Rushing; Part I. Mad Worlds; One. Maddening Times Mad Men in Its History - Dana Polan; Two. Mad Space - Dianne Harris; Three. Representing the Mad Margins of the Early 1960s Northern Civil Rights and the Blues Idiom - CLarence Lang; Four. After the Sex, What? A Feminist Reading of Reproductive History in Mad Men - LesLie J. Reagan; Five. The Writer as Producer; or, The Hip Figure after HBO - MichaeL Szalay; Part II. Mad Aesthetics
Six. The Shock of the Banal Mad Men's Progressive Realism - Caroline LevineSeven. Mod Men - Jim Hansen; Eight. Swing Skirts and Swinging Singles Mad Men, Fashion, and Cultural Memory - Mabel Rosenheck; Nine. Against Depth Looking at Surface through the Kodak Carousel - Irene V. Small; Ten. "It Will Shock You How Much This Never Happened" Antonioni and Mad Men - Robert A. Rushing; Part III. Made Men; Eleven. Media Madness Multiple Identity (Dis)Orders in Mad Men - Lynne Joyrich; Twelve. "Maidenform"" Masculinity as Masquerade - Lilya Kaganovsky
Thirteen. History Gets in Your Eyes Mad Men, Misrecognition, and the Masculine Mystique - Jeremy VaronFourteen. The Homosexual and the Single Girl - Alexander Doty; Fifteen. Mad Men's Postracial Figuration of a Racial Past - Kent Ono; Sixteen. The Mad Men in the Attic Seriality and Identity in the Modern Babylon - Lauren M. E. Goodlad; Afterword. A Change Is Gonna Come, Same as It Ever Was - Michael Bérubé; Appendix A. A Conversation with Phil Abraham, Director and Cinematographer - Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Jeremy Varon, Carl Lehnen; Appendix B. List of Mad Men Episodes; Works Cited
