21st Century Retro: Mad Men and 1960s America in Film and Television / Debarchana Baruah.
Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the 1960s 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 fr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bielefeld :
transcript-Verlag,
[2021]
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| Series: | American studies (Transcript (Firm))
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| Summary: | Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the 1960s 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-244) |
| ISBN: | 9783839457214 3839457211 |
| Language: | In English. |