Mad Men, Mad World - Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s

Informationen zum Autor Lauren M. E. Goodlad is University Scholar, Associate Professor of English, and Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience (forthcoming) and a coeditor of Goth: Undead Subculture, also published by Duke University Press.Lilya Kaganovsky is Associate Professor of Slavic, Comparative Literature, and Media & Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of How the Soviet Man Was Unmade.Robert A. Rushing is Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture. Klappentext Since the show's debut in 2007, Mad Men has invited viewers to immerse themselves in the lush period settings, ruthless Madison Avenue advertising culture, and arresting characters at the center of its 1960s fictional world. Mad Men, Mad World is a comprehensive analysis of this groundbreaking TV series. Scholars from across the humanities consider the AMC drama from a fascinating array of perspectives, including fashion, history, architecture, civil rights, feminism, consumerism, art, cinema, and the serial format, as well as through theoretical frames such as critical race theory, gender, queer theory, global studies, and psychoanalysis.In the introduction, the editors explore the show's popularity; its controversial representations of race, class, and gender; its powerful influence on aesthetics and style; and its unique use of period historicism and advertising as a way of speaking to our neoliberal moment. Mad Men, Mad World also includes an interview with Phil Abraham, an award-winning Mad Men director and cinematographer. Taken together, the essays demonstrate that understanding Mad Men means engaging the show not only as a reflection of the 1960s but also as a commentary on the present day. Contributors. Michael BÉrubÉ, Alexander Doty, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Jim Hansen, Dianne Harris, Lynne Joyrich, Lilya Kaganovsky, Clarence Lang, Caroline Levine, Kent Ono, Dana Polan, Leslie Reagan, Mabel Rosenheck, Robert A. Rushing, Irene Small, Michael Szalay, Jeremy Varon Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky, Robert A. Rushing 1 Part I. Mad Worlds 1. Maddening Times: Mad Men in Its History / Dana Polan 35 2. Mad Space / Dianne Harris 53 3. Representing the Mad Margins of the Early 1960s: Northern Civil Rights and the Blues Idiom / Clarence Lange 73 4. After the Sex, What? A Feminist Reading of Reproductive History in Mad Men / Leslie J. Reagan 92 5. The Writer as Producer; or, The Hip Figure after HBO / Michael Szalay 111 Part II.Mad Aesthetics 6. The Shock of the Banal: Mad Men's Progressive Realism / Caroline Levine 133 7. Mod Men / Jim Hansen 145 8. Swing Skirts and Swinging Singles: Mad Men, Fashion, and Cultural Memory / Mabel Rosenheck 161 9. Against Depth: Looking at Surface through the Kodak Carousel / Irene V. Small 181 10. "It Will Shock You How Much This Never Happened": Antonioni and Mad Men / Robert A. Rushing 192 Part III. Made Men 11. Media Madness: Multiple Identity (Dis)Orders in Mad Men / Lynne Joyrich 213 12. "Maidenform": Masculinity as Masquerade / Lilya Kaganovsky 238 13. History Gets in Your Eyes: Mad Men, Misrecognition, and the Masculine Mystique / Jeremy Varon 257 14. The Homosexual and the Single Girl / Alexander Doty 279 15. Mad Men's Postracial Figuration of a Racial Past / Kent Ono 300 16. The Mad Men in the Attic: Seriality and Identity in the Mod...

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Lauren M. E. Goodlad is University Scholar, Associate Professor of English, and Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Victorian Geopolitical Aesthetic: Realism, Sovereignty, and Transnational Experience (forthcoming) and a coeditor of Goth: Undead Subculture, also published by Duke University Press.
Lilya Kaganovsky is Associate Professor of Slavic, Comparative Literature, and Media & Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of How the Soviet Man Was Unmade.
Robert A. Rushing is Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture.

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• Autoren: Lauren M. E. Kaganovsky Goodlad, GOODLAD LAUREN M E EDT KAGAN, GOODLAD LAUREN M E KAGANOVSKY
• Mitarbeit: Lauren M E Goodlad (Herausgeber), Lauren M. E. Goodlad (Herausgeber), Lilya Kaganovsky (Herausgeber), Robert A Rushing (Herausgeber), Robert A. Rushing (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 11.03.2013
• EAN: 9780822354024
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5402-4
• Seiten: 432
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett