21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television
Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities. Debarchana Baruah offers a vocabulary to discuss these, using Mad Men as a primary case study and supplementing the analysis with other examples from the US and around the world. She takes a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to studying film and television, drawing from history, memory, and nostalgia discourses, and layering them with theories of intertextuality, paratexts, and actor-networks. The book's compositions style invites discussions from scholars of various fields, as well as those who are simply fans of history or of Mad Men.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 10 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 11 - 12 -
Introduction
Seiten 13 - 34 -
Part I
Chapter 1: Retro
Seiten 37 - 66 -
Chapter 2: History in Retros
Seiten 67 - 96 -
Part II
Chapter 3: Television Memories and Intertextualities in Mad Men
Seiten 99 - 132 -
Chapter 4: Mad Men and its Paratexts
Seiten 133 - 162 -
Part III
Chapter 5: The Mad Men Network
Seiten 165 - 196 -
Conclusion
Seiten 197 - 206 -
List of Mad Men Episodes Cited
Seiten 207 - 212 -
Works Cited
Seiten 213 - 246
19 April 2021, 246 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5721-0
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