The Legacy Of Mad Men

Author : Karen McNally,Jane Marcellus,Teresa Forde,Kirsty Fairclough
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030310912

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The Legacy of Mad Men by Karen McNally,Jane Marcellus,Teresa Forde,Kirsty Fairclough Pdf

For seven seasons, viewers worldwide watched as ad man Don Draper moved from adultery to self-discovery, secretary Peggy Olson became a take-no-prisoners businesswoman, object-of-the-gaze Joan Holloway developed a feminist consciousness, executive Roger Sterling tripped on LSD, and smarmy Pete Campbell became a surprisingly nice guy. Mad Men defined a pivotal moment for television, earning an enduring place in the medium’s history. This edited collection examines the enduringly popular television series as Mad Men still captivates audiences and scholars in its nuanced depiction of a complex decade. This is the first book to offer an analysis of Mad Men in its entirety, exploring the cyclical and episodic structure of the long form series and investigating issues of representation, power and social change. The collection establishes the show’s legacy in televisual terms, and brings it up to date through an examination of its cultural importance in the Trump era. Aimed at scholars and interested general readers, the book illustrates the ways in which Mad Men has become a cultural marker for reflecting upon contemporary television and politics.

Author : Sara MacDonald,Andrew Moore
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498526975

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Mad Men by Sara MacDonald,Andrew Moore Pdf

Mad Men, investigating topics including freedom, equality, consumerism and justice.

Author : Gary R. Edgerton
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780814345474

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Mad Men by Gary R. Edgerton Pdf

A captivating and analytical compendium to the hit show - and its creation, story, and impact on contemporary media and popular culture.

Author : Scott F. Stoddart
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786485253

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Analyzing Mad Men by Scott F. Stoddart Pdf

AMC's episodic drama Mad Men has become a cultural phenomenon, detailing America's preoccupation with commercialism and image in the Camelot of 1960s Kennedy-era America, while self-consciously exploring current preoccupations. 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. Topics include New Historicist parallels between the 1960s and the present day, psychoanalytical approaches to the show, the self as commodity, and the "Age of Camelot" as an "Age of Anxiety," among others. A detailed cast list and episode guide are included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Andrew Cracknell
Publisher : Quercus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Advertising
ISBN : 0857384279

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The Real Mad Men by Andrew Cracknell Pdf

Taking a cue from AMC's award-winning drama Mad Men, provides a visual history of the key major ad campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s and the people behind them who kicked off the Creative Revolution.

Author : David M. DiValerio
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199391219

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The Holy Madmen of Tibet by David M. DiValerio Pdf

Over the course of the last millennium in Tibet, tantric yogins have been taking on norm-overturning modes of behaviour and dress, including provoking others to violence, publicly consuming filth, having sex, and draping themselves in human remains. Because of this they have been called 'madmen' (smyon pa), but have also achieved a degree of saintliness. This book is the first comprehensive study of these 'holy madmen', who have captured the imaginations of Tibetans and Westerners alike.

Author : Andrew Cracknell
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857387578

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The Real Mad Men by Andrew Cracknell Pdf

In New York City in the late 1950s and the 1960s - the era and location of TV's Mad Men - advertising went through a revolution. In a booming market, a punchy and proud new workforce of younger, multi-ethnic writers and art directors gorged themselves on a vibrant and artistic social scene. In many ways they were similar to Don Draper, Roger Sterling and Peggy Olsen: confident, driven and ambitious, they lived the three-martini life and worked the machine to their advantage. Also clever, creative and streetwise, they outclassed and outthought the old advertising establishment, implementing a new way of thinking and behaving which spread across the newspapers, magazines and TV screens of America and beyond. The story of modern advertising starts here, with these real Mad Men - and women - of Madison Avenue who created the most radical and influential advertising ever, transforming the methods, practice and execution of the business. Their legacy still resounds in the industry today. How did this golden age of advertising happen? It is a remarkable, inspiring story of creativity, ingenuity and larger than life personalities who made it up as they went along.

Author : M J Tilbrook
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326538590

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A Tale of Grudge and Gods: How Madmen Smile by M J Tilbrook Pdf

Author : Debarchana Baruah
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839457214

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21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television by Debarchana Baruah Pdf

Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities. Debarchana Baruah offers a vocabulary to discuss these, using Mad Men as a primary case study and supplementing the analysis with other examples from the US and around the world. She takes a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to studying film and television, drawing from history, memory, and nostalgia discourses, and layering them with theories of intertextuality, paratexts, and actor-networks. The book's compositions style invites discussions from scholars of various fields, as well as those who are simply fans of history or of Mad Men.

Author : Clinton Heylin
Publisher : Constable
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781780330785

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All the Madmen by Clinton Heylin Pdf

By the end of 1968 The Beatles were far too busy squabbling with each other, while The Stones had simply stopped making music; English Rock was coming to an end. All the Mad Men tells the story of six stars that travelled to edge of sanity in the years following the summer of love: Pete Townshend, Ray Davies, Peter Green, Syd Barrett, Nick Drake, and David Bowie. The book charts how they made some of the most seminal rock music ever recorded: Pink Moon; Ziggy Stardust; Quadrophenia; Dark Side of the Moon; Muswell Hillbillies - and how some of them could not make it back from the brink. The extraordinary story of how English Rock went mad and found itself

Author : Eric San Juan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329824690

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Celebrating Mad Men: Your Unofficial Guide to What Makes the Show and Its Characters Tick by Eric San Juan Pdf

Author : Brett Martin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781101617793

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Difficult Men by Brett Martin Pdf

The 10th anniversary edition, now with a new preface by the author "A wonderfully smart, lively, and culturally astute survey." - The New York Times Book Review "Grand entertainment...fascinating for anyone curious about the perplexing miracles of how great television comes to be." - The Wall Street Journal "I love this book...It's the kind of thing I wish I'd been able to read in film school, back before such books existed." - Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad and co-creator of Better Call Saul In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the landscape of television began an unprecedented transformation. While the networks continued to chase the lowest common denominator, a wave of new shows on cable channels dramatically stretched television’s narrative inventiveness, emotional resonance, and creative ambition. Combining deep reportage with critical analysis and historical context, Brett Martin recounts the rise and inner workings of this artistic watershed - a golden age of TV that continues to transform America's cultural landscape. Difficult Men features extensive interviews with all the major players - including David Chase (The Sopranos), David Simon and Ed Burns (The Wire), David Milch (NYPD Blue, Deadwood), Alan Ball (Six Feet Under), and Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) - and reveals how television became a truly significant and influential part of our culture.

Author : C. Bloom
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137318978

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Victoria's Madmen by C. Bloom Pdf

Victoria's Madmen is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the Victorian Age. Clive Bloom's readable account of the dark underbelly of Victoria's Britain captures the unrest bubbling under the surface of strait-laced Victorian society.

Author : Adrienne L. McLean
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813544670

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Dying Swans and Madmen by Adrienne L. McLean Pdf

From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits including Billy Elliot, Save the Last Dance, and The Company, ballet has found its way, time and again, onto the silver screen and into the hearts of many otherwise unlikely audiences. In Dying Swans and Madmen, Adrienne L. McLean explores the curious pairing of classical and contemporary, art and entertainment, high culture and popular culture to reveal the ambivalent place that this art form occupies in American life. Drawing on examples that range from musicals to tragic melodramas, she shows how commercial films have produced an image of ballet and its artists that is associated both with joy, fulfillment, fame, and power and with sexual and mental perversity, melancholy, and death. Although ballet is still received by many with a lack of interest or outright suspicion, McLean argues that these attitudes as well as ballet's popularity and its acceptability as a way of life and a profession have often depended on what audiences first learned about it from the movies.

Author : Thomas Fahy
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496821553

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Dining with Madmen by Thomas Fahy Pdf

In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America’s preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror. Conspicuous consumption may have communicated success in the eighties, but only if it did not become visible on the body. American society had come to view fatness as a horrifying transformation—it exposed the potential harm of junk food, gave life to the promises of workout and diet culture, and represented the country’s worst consumer impulses, inviting questions about the personal and environmental consequences of excess. While changing into a vampire or a zombie often represented widespread fears about addiction and overeating, it also played into concerns about pollution. Ozone depletion, acid rain, and toxic waste already demonstrated the irrevocable harm being done to the planet. The horror genre—from A Nightmare on Elm Street to American Psycho—responded by presenting this damage as an urgent problem, and, through the sudden violence of killers, vampires, and zombies, it depicted the consequences of inaction as terrifying. Whether through Hannibal Lecter’s cannibalism, a vampire’s thirst for blood in The Queen of the Damned and The Lost Boys, or an overwhelming number of zombies in George Romero’s Day of the Dead, 1980s horror uses out-of-control hunger to capture deep-seated concerns about the physical and material consequences of unchecked consumption. Its presentation of American appetites resonated powerfully for audiences preoccupied with body size, food choices, and pollution. And its use of bodily change, alongside the bloodlust of killers and the desolate landscapes of apocalyptic fiction, demanded a recognition of the potentially horrifying impact of consumerism on nature, society, and the self.