Posts Tagged ‘ Mad Men ’

Moving Into a Fuller House: Television Reboots, Nostalgia, and Time

May 29, 2015
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Moving Into a <em>Fuller House</em>: Television Reboots, Nostalgia, and Time

Mark Lashley discusses "Fuller House" and the current trend of resurrected television nostalgia, and how the notion of television as an ephemeral or disposable media form is diminishing.
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Style, Structuring Conceits, and the Paratexts of Mad Men

May 22, 2015
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Style, Structuring Conceits, and the Paratexts of <em>Mad Men</em>

Piers Britton on Mad Men's visual style, series structure, and Sixties-philiac tendencies, and how the TV series turned its tension between the espousal of emotional truthfulness and a preoccupation with “superficial” visual pleasures into a branding strategy.
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“Television Aesthetics” versus Formal and Stylistic Analysis

April 8, 2015
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“Television Aesthetics” versus Formal and Stylistic Analysis

Piers Britton reflects on the unacknowledged divergences in use of the term “aesthetic” within television studies, and suggests that some of the elisions are leading to unproductive argument.
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Feminist Media Studies: (In)visible Labor

July 1, 2012
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Feminist Media Studies: (In)visible Labor

Studying representation was my way into media studies. But laborers aren't working from a script and we can't always visualize the lived realities of their work.
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The Pitch: Creativity in Advertising

May 14, 2012
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The Pitch: Creativity in Advertising

AMC's The Pitch documents the legacy of the Creative Revolution by showing proponents of creativity in advertising insisting on the value of artfulness over scientism.
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Mediating the Past: Mad Men’s Sophisticated Weekly Get Together

April 13, 2012
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Mediating the Past: Mad Men’s Sophisticated Weekly Get Together

While this media surge contributed to this season’s premiere becoming Mad Men’s highest rated episode ever, ratings are not really the point. Mad Men sustains AMC's brand, providing a specific and prestigious visibility that extends beyond those who actually watch. Mad Men also offers viewers the opportunity to feel simultaneously nostalgic for and superior...
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Out of Time

October 24, 2011
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Out of Time

Each year, the anticipated fall premiere television season is followed by an equally exciting period: fall cancellation season. The failures of The Playboy Club and Pan Am raise the question of why we turn to period TV, especially post-Mad Men.
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The Mad-ness of Precarious Programming?

April 5, 2011
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The Mad-ness of Precarious Programming?

It is no longer impossible to imagine that AMC might move on, leaving its signature show behind.
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“Those Kinds of Shenanigans”: Mad Men’s “Blowing Smoke”

October 12, 2010
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“Those Kinds of Shenanigans”: Mad Men’s “Blowing Smoke”

This season, Mad Men, and its mad men and women, have been on a quest to redefine what advertising is, dramatizing the radical changes that the field underwent during the 1960s.
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Back from the Brink: The Return of Don Draper

October 5, 2010
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Back from the Brink: The Return of Don Draper

In "Chinese Wall," barriers between personal and professional lives continue to erode, and Mad Men's men begin to wrestle with these costs.
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“Listen. Do You Want to Know a Secret?”: Mad Men, Episode 10, “Hands & Knees”

September 29, 2010
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“Listen. Do You Want to Know a Secret?”: Mad Men, Episode 10, “Hands & Knees”

The British invasion of Sterling Cooper at the end of season two has resulted in a noticeably different firm and a noticeably different direction to the series. This has also meant moments of audible change.
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Peggy’s Social Consciousness: Corporate Culture and Counterculture

September 22, 2010
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Peggy’s Social Consciousness:  Corporate Culture and Counterculture

An intersection of civil rights and women’s rights is woven through this episode about women’s voices.
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In Defense of the Strategic Marginalization of Blackness within Mad Men

September 14, 2010
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In Defense of the Strategic Marginalization of Blackness within Mad Men

Is the exclusion of blackness on Mad Men an oversight, a strategic choice, or a reflection of the continuing privilege of whiteness?
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What’s Happening to Don Draper?: Mad Men and the Waning Value of Masculine Detachment

August 31, 2010
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What’s Happening to Don Draper?: <i>Mad Men</i> and the Waning Value of Masculine Detachment

Unlike any other episode to date, “Waldorf Stories” stresses the importance of masculine disengagement by creating a context in which this mode is no longer available to Don.
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