Author : Debarchana Baruah
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839457211
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Book Synopsis 21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television by : Debarchana Baruah
Download or read book 21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television written by Debarchana Baruah and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 a 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 compositions style invites discussions from scholars of various fields, as well as those who are simply fans of history or of Mad Men.