Analyzing Mad Men
Subtitle: critical essays on the television series
By: edited by Scott F. Stoddart
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780786447381
Subjects: Mad men (Television program)
Description: "The 12 critical essays in this collection offer a broad, interdisciplinary approach to this highly relevant television show, examining Mad Men as a cultural barometer for contemporary concerns with consumerism, capitalism and sexism. A detailed cast list and episode guide are included"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: the contexts of Mad Men. "We'll start over like Adam and Eve": the subversion of classic American mythology / Melanie Hernandez and David Thomas Holmberg; title: The fall of the organization man: loyalty and conflict in the  first season / Maura Grady; title: The politics of Mad Men. "The good place" and "the place that cannot be": politics, melodrama and utopia / Brenda Cromb; title: Unleashing a flow of Desire: Sterling Cooper, desiring-production, and the tenets of late capitalism / David P. Pierson; title: Kodak, Jack, and Coke: advertising and Mad-vertising / Jennifer Gillan; title: The women of Mad Men. Mad Men and career women: the best of everything? / Tamar Jeffers McDonald; title: "A mother like you": pregnancy, the maternal, and nostalgia / Diana Davidson; title: Mad Men/mad women: autonomous images of women / Sara Rogers; title: Maidenform: temporalities of fashion, femininity, and feminism / Meenasarani Linde Murugan; title: Every woman is a Jackie or a Marilyn: the problematics of nostalgia / Tonya Krouse; title: The nostalgia of Mad men. Camelot regained / Scott F. Stoddart; title: Complicating Camelot: surface realism and deliberate archaism / Christine Sprengler.