| 21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television Contributor(s): Baruah, Debarchana (Author) |
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ISBN: 3837657213 ISBN-13: 9783837657210 Publisher: Transcript Publishing OUR PRICE: $49.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6" W x 9" (0.74 lbs) 246 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities. Debarchana Baruah offers a vocabulary to discuss these, using Mad Men as primary case study and supplementing the analysis with other examples from the US and around the world. She takes a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to studying film and television, drawing from history, memory, and nostalgia discourses, and layering them with theories of intertextuality, paratexts, and actor-networks. The book's compositionist style invites discussion from scholars of various fields, as well as those who are simply fans of history or of Mad Men. |