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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Columns
Back from the Brink: The Return of Don Draper
Report From: Flow 2010 (#2)
Given that Erin so eloquently captured the buzz of the scholarly conversations this weekend, I’m going to focus on some of the roundtables that I found most intellectually stimulating.
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Report From: Flow 2010
The ability to facilitate dialogue not only within roundtables, but among them, seems to me the greatest strength of the Flow conference model.
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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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What Are You Missing? Sept 12-25
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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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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Tweets of Anarchy: Showrunners on Twitter
For today's television showrunner, Twitter is simultaneously rife with potential and littered with pitfalls.
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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 Are You Missing? Aug 29-Sep 11
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Open or Closed? Mad Men, Celebrity Gossip, and the Public/Private Divide
This week's Mad Men is all about gossip.
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Summer Media: Wet and Wild Amusements
The strange case of the carnivalesque and commercial nature of the modern amusement park.
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What’s Happening to Don Draper?: Mad Men 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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What Do You Think? The Emmys
The 62nd Primetime Emmys aired last night on NBC with a first-time host, and several first-time winners. There's much to discuss, and at Antenna, we're curious: what do you think?
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What Are You Missing? August 15-28
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Summer Media: American Pickers, Pawn Stars, and Shows About Stuff
The documentary reality TV series American Pickers and Pawn Stars are two of this summer's hottest original shows on cable. And yet, how is that shows about collecting really expensive stuff are so popular amidst an economic recession?
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