Mad Men

by Edgerton, Gary R.

• ISBN13: 9781848853799
• ISBN10: 1848853793
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-26
• Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd

Summary

Since premiering in July 2007,Mad Menhas won many awards and been syndicated across the globe. Its imprint is evident throughout contemporary culturefrom TV advertisements and magazine covers to designer fashions and online debate. Its creator, Matthew Weiner, a former executive producer onThe Sopranos, has again created compelling, complex characters, this time in the sophisticated, go-go world of Madison Avenue of the 1960s, with smoking, drinking, and the playing out of prejudices and anxieties of an era long neglected in popular culture. As Edgerton and a host of other well-known contributors demonstrate here,Mad Menis a zeitgeist show of the early twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

*Acknowledgments * Contributors * Foreword: From Rod Serling to Roger Sterling -- Robert Thompson * Introduction: When Our Parents Became Us -- Gary R. Edgerton * Part 1: Industry and Authorship * The Selling of Mad Men: A Production History -- Gary Edgerton * ‘If It’s Too Easy, Then Usually There’s Something Wrong’: An Interview with Mad Men’s Executive Producer Scott Hornbacher -- Brian Rose * Don Draper Confronts the Maddest Men of the Sixties: Bob Dylan and George Lois -- Ron Simon * Part 2: Visual and Aural Stylistics and Influences *  ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’: Historicizing Visual Style in Mad Men -- Jeremy Butler * Uneasy Listening: Music, Sound, and Criticizing Camelot in Mad Men -- Tim Anderson * Suggestive Silence in Season One -- Maurice Yacowar * Part 3: Narrative Dynamics and Genealogy * Learning to Live with Television in Mad Men -- Horace Newcomb * Space Ships and Time Machines: Mad Men and the Serial Condition -- Sean O’Sullivan* ‘The Catastrophe of My Personality’: Frank O’Hara, Don Draper, and the Poetics of Mad Men -- David Lavery * Part 4: Sexual Politics and Gender Roles * Mad Women -- Mimi White *  Women on the Verge of the Second Wave -- Mary Beth Haralovich * The Best of Everything:  The Limits of Being a Working Girl in Mad Men -- Kim Akass and Janet McCabe * Part 5: Cultural Memory and the American Dream * Men Behaving like Boys: The Culture of Mad Men  -- William Siska * The Strange Career of Mad Men: Race, Paratexts, and Civil Rights Memory -- Allison Perlman * Mad Men: A Roots Tale of the Information Age -- David Marc * Creative Team and Cast List * Episode Guide *  General Index * Television Series Index *