{"product_id":"mad-men-mad-world-9780822354024","title":"Mad Men Mad World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this comprehensive analysis of the TV series \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e, scholars explore the groundbreaking drama in relation to fashion, history, architecture, civil rights, feminism, consumerism, art, cinema, and the serial format.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMad Men, Mad World\u003c\/i\u003e's brilliance is that it analyzes storylines and characters from completely unexpected angles. . . . These are deeply considered pieces that truly spark intellectual discussion. It's a mad world, indeed, but this book helps to bring some order to the chaos.” -- Natalie Papailiou * Shelf Awareness for Readers *\u003cbr\u003e\"I read this collection with enormous pleasure. The essays are smart, creative, and original. Writing on matters from TV technology to the history of advertising, and from the early civil rights movement to analogies between Jews and nineteenth-century dandies, the contributors illuminate what turns out to be a very rich and charismatic cultural object. I think that \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e, Mad World will make a real splash.\"—\u003cb\u003eBruce Robbins\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003ePerpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Just as \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e charms its viewers by using sex, drugs, snappy banter, and pretty people to make heavy topics (sexism, racism, dreams diffused) palatable, the editors of \u003ci\u003eMad Men, Mad World\u003c\/i\u003e trust that some TV glamour will get readers interested in digesting academic theories. It's not wrong. Full of dense, fascinating writing,\u003ci\u003e Mad Men, Mad World\u003c\/i\u003e, from Duke University Press, takes stock of ‘sex, politics, style \u0026amp; the 1960s’ in a series of essays by academics, theorizing about \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e.” -- Diana Clarke * Village Voice *\u003cbr\u003e“An interesting conversation.” -- Candace Opper * Bitch *\u003cbr\u003e“There is much else in the book that I found interesting and useful in thinking about \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e, and I think it will be stimulating to readers outside the ranks of aca fandom.” -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed *\u003cbr\u003e“Throughout the book are intelligent discussions dissecting the central themes addressed in the show, such as masculinity and feminism, identity, and race relations and representations. . . . [It] accomplishes the admirable feat of offering considerable critique and examination from a standpoint of admiration and fandom.” * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e“A lot is packed into this volume, and nobody is likely to reach the end feeling shortchanged. . . . This is no giddy fanzine, to be sure, but for folks who take their \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e seriously it opens worthwhile paths of inquiry.” -- James M. Keller * Santa Fe New Mexican *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky, Robert A. Rushing 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Mad Worlds\u003cbr\u003e 1. Maddening Times: \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e in Its History \/ Dana Polan 35\u003cbr\u003e 2. Mad Space \/ Dianne Harris 53\u003cbr\u003e 3. Representing the \u003ci\u003eMad\u003c\/i\u003e Margins of the Early 1960s: Northern Civil Rights and the Blues Idiom \/ Clarence Lange 73\u003cbr\u003e 4. After the Sex, What? A Feminist Reading of Reproductive History in \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Leslie J. Reagan 92\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Writer as Producer; or, The Hip Figure after HBO \/ Michael Szalay 111\u003cbr\u003e Part II.Mad Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Shock of the Banal: \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e's Progressive Realism \/ Caroline Levine 133\u003cbr\u003e 7. Mod Men \/ Jim Hansen 145\u003cbr\u003e 8. Swing Skirts and Swinging Singles: \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e, Fashion, and Cultural Memory \/ Mabel Rosenheck 161\u003cbr\u003e 9. Against Depth: Looking at Surface through the Kodak Carousel \/ Irene V. Small 181\u003cbr\u003e 10. \"It Will Shock You How Much This Never Happened\": Antonioni and \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Robert A. Rushing 192\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Made Men\u003cbr\u003e 11. Media Madness: Multiple Identity (Dis)Orders in \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Lynne Joyrich 213\u003cbr\u003e 12. \"Maidenform\": Masculinity as Masquerade \/ Lilya Kaganovsky 238\u003cbr\u003e 13. History Gets in Your Eyes: \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e, Misrecognition, and the Masculine Mystique \/ Jeremy Varon 257\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Homosexual and the Single Girl \/ Alexander Doty 279\u003cbr\u003e 15. \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e's Postracial Figuration of a Racial Past \/ Kent Ono 300\u003cbr\u003e 16. The \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e in the Attic: Seriality and Identity in the Modern Bablyon \/ Lauren M. E. Goodlad 320\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. A Change Is Gonna Come, Same as It Ever Was \/ Michael Bérubé 345\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A. A Conversation with Phil Abraham, Director and Cinematographer \/ Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Jeremy Varon, and Carl Lehnen 361\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B. List of \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e Episodes 381\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 411\u003cbr\u003e Index 415","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406074290519,"sku":"9780822354024","price":1302.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mad-men-mad-world-9780822354024","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}