Mad Men (eBook, ePUB)

Dream Come True TV
Redaktion: Edgerton, Gary R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Don and Betty Draper live in a picture-perfect world. He is a hard-living advertising executive - a 'mad man' - on the fast track. She's a Bryn Mawr graduate and former fashion model, now a suburban princess, mother of three children. If they've everything, why are they so unhappy? Why is their dream come true not enough? This book explores, analyses, celebrates the world of "Mad Men" in all its aspects, and includes an interview with it's Executive Producer and an episode guide. Every few years a new television program comes along to capture and express the zeitgeist. "Mad Men" is now that show. Since premiering in July 2007, it's won many awards and is syndicated across the globe. Its imprint is evident throughout contemporary culture, from features to fashions and online debate. Its creator Matthew Weiner, a former exec producer on "The Sopranos", has created again compelling, complex characters, this time in the sophisticated go-go world of Madison Avenue through the 1960s, with the excessive drinking and smoking, as well as the playing out of the prejudices and anxieties of an era long neglected in popular culture. "Mad Men" is a zeitgeist show of the early twenty-first century, this book demonstrates, partly because its characters are an earlier, confused and conflicted version of ourselves, trying to make the best of a future unfolding at breakneck speed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857730725
• Artikelnr.: 39142140

Autorenporträt

Gary R. Edgerton is Eminent Scholar, Professor, and Chair of the Communication and Theatre Arts Department at Old Dominion University. He has published eight books, more than seventy-five essays on a wide assortment of media and culture topics, and is co-editor of the Journal of Popular Film and Television.

Inhaltsangabe

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