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Lucky strikes and a three Martini lunch : thinking about television's Mad Men /

Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch: Thinking About Television's Mad Men explores the attributes of the AMC series that allow it to be such a popular and vital contribution to contemporary cultural discourse. Set in the 1960s in New York, the Emmy and Peabody-winning series Mad Men follows...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stern, Danielle M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Foreword : "Is it true that blondes have more fun?" My life and times with Mad Men-era advertising superstar Shirley Polykoff, the original Peggy Olson / Mary-Lou Galician
  • Part I. The way we (never?) were : remembering the 1960s through Mad Men
  • Not a spaceship, but a time machine : Mad Men and the narratives of nostalgia / Ann M. Ciasullo
  • "A place where we ache to go again" : fashion and nostalgia in Mad Men / Heidi Brevik-Zender
  • Art, advertising, and nostalgia for the new in Mad Man / Ryan Gillespie
  • Spin the carousel : Mad Men, nostalgia, and the American dream / Bob Batchelor
  • Part II. Seeing them, seeing ourselves : identity and identifying with Mad Men
  • "The consumer has no color" (Paul Kinsey in Mad Men) / Stephanie L. Young
  • Finding yourself in Mad Men / Jimmie Manning
  • Resisting queer bodies by illuminating the televisual closet on AMC's Mad Men / Danielle M. Stern
  • Part III. Relationships in and out of the workplace : interpersonal connecton in Mad Men
  • Inside the mind of "Don Draper" : abuse and its legacy, a portrait of the "as if" personality / Alisa Matteson Mundt and Elizabeth Ward
  • No one knows what it's like to be the Mad Men : inadequate comforting and coping with 1960s life / Michael Robert Dennis and Adrianne Kunkel
  • Sex, privacy, and relations of power : the role of automobiles in Mad Men / Wesley Colbath
  • Part IV. We've come a long way, baby : gender and sexuality in Mad Men
  • All about Betty : selling the suburban housewife in Mad Men / Adrian Jones
  • More than just a "Marilyn" : Peggy, Joan and the single working woman of the 1960s / Katherine Lehman
  • Mad Men's mad men : multiple masculinities and the "masculinity-in-crisis" narrative / Daniel J. Lair and Daniel S. Strasser
  • Part V. Mass understandings : media in and about Mad Men
  • "Think small" : 1960s print ads and the world of Mad Men / Kathleen M. Vandenberg
  • Branding the admen of Mad Men : new.
  • Media, the post-network era and the reinvention of American television / MJ Robinson
  • Mad Me dot com : an analysis of commentary from fan websites / Lynne M. Webb, Hao-Chieh Chang, Marceline Thompson Hayes, Marcia M. Smith, and Danna M. Gibson
  • Part VI. What can we learn from a TV show? Philosophy and pedagogy in Mad Men
  • Housewives, career gals, and the sexy single girl : teaching second wave feminisms and beyond through Mad Men / Jennifer C. Dunn
  • Mad Men : pedagogical possibilities / Peggy O'Neal Ridlen and Jamie Schmidt Wagman.