Overview

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.

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Author:   Scott F. Stoddart
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9780786447381

ISBN 10:   0786447389
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   26 July 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Introduction      The Contexts of Mad Men 1. “We’ll start over like Adam and Eve”: The Subversion of Classic American Mythology Melanie Hernandez and David Thomas Holmberg      2. The Fall of the Organization Man: Loyalty and Conflict in the First Season Maura Grady      The Politics of Mad Men 3. “The Good Place” and “The Place That Cannot Be”: Politics, Melodrama and Utopia Brenda Cromb      4. Unleashing a Flow of Desire: Sterling Cooper, Desiring-Production, and the Tenets of Late Capitalism David P. Pierson      5. Kodak, Jack, and Coke : Advertising and Mad-vertising Jennifer Gillan      The Women of Mad Men 6. Mad Men and Career Women: The Best of Everything? Tamar Jeffers McDonald      7. “A Mother Like You”: Pregnancy, the Maternal, and Nostalgia Diana Davidson      8. Mad Men / Mad Women: Autonomous Images of Women Sara Rogers      9. Maidenform: Temporalities of Fashion, Femininity, and Feminism Meenasarani Linde Murugan      10. Every Woman Is a Jackie or a Marilyn: The Problematics of Nostalgia Tonya Krouse      The Nostalgia of Mad Men 11. Camelot Regained Scott F. Stoddart      12. Complicating Camelot: Surface Realism and Deliberate Archaism Christine Sprengler      Episode Guide and Cast List      About the Contributors      Index     

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Scott F. Stoddart is the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, New Jersey. He has written about culture, literature and the arts on such topics as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen Sondheim and the Coen brothers. He is a host of the Sundance television series Love/Lust and a contributor to the PBS series American Icons.

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