Goodlad / Kaganovsky / Rushing Mad Men, Mad World

Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9906-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodlad, Lauren M. E.

Kaganovsky, Lilya

Rushing, Robert A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

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 Modern Bablyon / Lauren M. E. Goodlad 320

Afterword. A Change Is Gonna Come, Same as It Ever Was / Michael Bérubé 345

Appendix A. A Conversation with Phil Abraham, Director and Cinematographer / Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Jeremy Varon, and Carl Lehnen 361

Appendix B. List of Mad Men Episodes 381

Contributors 411

Index 415

Über Autor(innen)

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.