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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "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. "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. Zusammenfassung "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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsContributorsCreative Team and Cast ListForeword: From Rod Serling to Roger SterlingRobert ThompsonIntroduction: When Our Parents Became Us Gary R. Edgerton Part 1-Industry and Authorship1. The Selling of Mad Men: A Production HistoryGary Edgerton2. Women on the Verge of the Second Wave: At Home and At Work in Mad MenMary 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 Influences4. ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’: Historicizing Visual Style in Mad MenJeremy Butler5. Uneasy Listening: Music, Sound, and Criticizing Camelot in Mad MenPopular Music and Social Change in Mad MenTim Anderson6. Suggestive Silence in Season OneMaurice Yacowar Part 3-Narrative Dynamics and Genealogy7. Learning to Live with Television in Mad MenHorace Newcomb8. Space Ships and Time Machines: Mad Men and the Serial Condition Sean O’Sullivan9. ‘The Catastrophe of My Personality’: Frank O’Hara, Don Draper,and the Poetics of Mad MenDavid Lavery Part 4-Sexual Politics and Gender Roles10. Mad WomenMimi White11. The Best of Everything: The Limits of Being a Working Girl in Mad Men Kim Akass and Janet McCabe12. Men Behaving as Boys: The Cultural Matrix of Mad Men William Siska Part 5-Suburbia, Advertising, and the American Dream13. The Strange Career of Mad Men: Race, Paratexts, and Civil Rights Memory Allison Perlman14. Don Draper Confronts the Maddest Men of the Sixties:Bob Dylan and George Lois and Bob DylanRon Simon15. Mad Men: A Roots Tale of the Information AgeDavid Marc NotesEpisode GuideSelected Film and TV ProgramsSelected BibliographyGeneral IndexTelevision Series Index...
