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Mad Men and politics: nostalgia and the remaking of modern America

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Bloomsbury Academic 2015Description: xiv, 311 pISBN:
  • 9781501306358
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4572 B3M2
Summary: Mad Men, using the historical backdrop of the many events that came to demarcate the 1960s, has presented a beautifully-styled rendering of this tumultuous decade, while teasing out a number of themes that resonate throughout the show and connect to the contemporary discourses that dominate today's political landscape. The chapters of this book analyze the most important dimensions explored on the show, including issues around gender, race, prejudice, the family, generational change, the social movements of the 1960s, our understanding of America's place in the world, and the idea of work in the post-war period. Mad Men and Politics provides the reader with an understanding not only of the topics and issues that can be easily grasped while watching, but also contemplates our historical perspective of the 1960s as we consider it through the telescope of our current condition. (http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mad-men-and-politics-9781501306358/)
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Table of contents:

PART I: The American Century
1. Mad Men and Politics: Nostalgia and The Remaking of America
2. If You Don't Like What They Are Saying, Change the Conversation: The Grifter, Don Draper, and the Iconic American Hero
3. The Power Elite and Semi-Sovereign Selfhood in post-War America
4. Cash or Credit?: Sex and the Pursuit of Happiness

PART II: Business and Identity
5. Appearances, Social Norms, and Life in Modern America: Nationalism and Patriotism in Mad Men
6. Going Groovy or Nostalgic: Mad Men and Advertising, Business, and Social Movements

PART III: Those Seen and Not Seen, Heard and Not Heard
7. Masculinity and Its Discontents: Myth, Memory and the Future on Mad Men
8. “You Can't Be a Man. So Don't Even Try”: Femininity and Feminism in Mad Men
9. Invisible Men: The Politics and Presence of Racial and Ethnic “Others” in Mad Men

PART IV: Conclusion
10. Tomorrowland: Contemporary Visions, Past Indiscretions

Mad Men, using the historical backdrop of the many events that came to demarcate the 1960s, has presented a beautifully-styled rendering of this tumultuous decade, while teasing out a number of themes that resonate throughout the show and connect to the contemporary discourses that dominate today's political landscape. The chapters of this book analyze the most important dimensions explored on the show, including issues around gender, race, prejudice, the family, generational change, the social movements of the 1960s, our understanding of America's place in the world, and the idea of work in the post-war period.

Mad Men and Politics provides the reader with an understanding not only of the topics and issues that can be easily grasped while watching, but also contemplates our historical perspective of the 1960s as we consider it through the telescope of our current condition.


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