Analyzing Mad Men critical essays on the television series
"The 12 critical essays in this collection offer a broad, interdisciplinary approach to this highly relevant television show, examining Mad Men as a cultural barometer for contemporary concerns with consumerism, capitalism and sexism. A detailed cast list and episode guide are included"--P...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina ; and London :
McFarland & Company
cop. 2011
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991003253049708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- the contexts of Mad Men. "We'll start over like Adam and Eve": the subversion of classic American mythology / Melanie Hernandez and David Thomas Holmberg
- The fall of the organization man: loyalty and conflict in the first season / Maura Grady
- The politics of Mad Men. "The good place" and "the place that cannot be": politics, melodrama and utopia / Brenda Cromb
- Unleashing a flow of Desire: Sterling Cooper, desiring-production, and the tenets of late capitalism / David P. Pierson
- Kodak, Jack, and Coke: advertising and Mad-vertising / Jennifer Gillan
- The women of Mad Men. Mad Men and career women: the best of everything? / Tamar Jeffers McDonald
- "A mother like you": pregnancy, the maternal, and nostalgia / Diana Davidson
- Mad Men/mad women: autonomous images of women / Sara Rogers
- Maidenform: temporalities of fashion, femininity, and feminism / Meenasarani Linde Murugan
- Every woman is a Jackie or a Marilyn: the problematics of nostalgia / Tonya Krouse
- The nostalgia of Mad men. Camelot regained / Scott F. Stoddart
- Complicating Camelot: surface realism and deliberate archaism / Christine Sprengler.
