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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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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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Lessons from Los Angeles: Top Takeaways from the TV Academy (Part Two)

November 23, 2010
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Lessons from Los Angeles: Top Takeaways from the TV Academy (Part Two)

The second in our two-part series on the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences Foundation's faculty seminar.
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