Mad Men
Dream Come True TV
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- 25,99 €
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- 25,99 €
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Don and Betty Draper live in a picture-perfect world. He is a hard-living advertising executive - a 'mad man' - on the fast track. She's a Bryn Mawr graduate and former fashion model, now a suburban princess, mother of three children. If they've everything, why are they so unhappy? Why is their dream come true not enough? This book explores, analyses, celebrates the world of "Mad Men" in all its aspects, and includes an interview with it's Executive Producer and an episode guide. Every few years a new television program comes along to capture and express the zeitgeist. "Mad Men" is now that show. Since premiering in July 2007, it's won many awards and is syndicated across the globe. Its imprint is evident throughout contemporary culture, from features to fashions and online debate. Its creator Matthew Weiner, a former exec producer on "The Sopranos", has created again compelling, complex characters, this time in the sophisticated go-go world of Madison Avenue through the 1960s, with the excessive drinking and smoking, as well as the playing out of the prejudices and anxieties of an era long neglected in popular culture.
"Mad Men" is a zeitgeist show of the early twenty-first century, this book demonstrates, partly because its characters are an earlier, confused and conflicted version of ourselves, trying to make the best of a future unfolding at breakneck speed.
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In this detailed analysis, Edgerton (The Sopranos), a media professor at Butler University, examines the making of the TV show Mad Men (2007–2015), contending that it was "one of the most skillfully produced, artistically innovative, and culturally resonant scripted series in the history of television." Chronicling the show's long path to air, Edgerton recounts how creator Matthew Weiner sold the series to AMC after rejections from FX, Showtime, and HBO (where David Chase, Weiner's boss on The Sopranos, had championed the project to no avail), and had to convince AMC brass that actor Jon Hamm was "sexy enough" to cast as ad executive Don Draper. According to Edgerton, the core of Mad Men's appeal was its "frequent use of critical nostalgia to foreground and interrogate" the "reactionary" stances on class, gender, race, and sexuality that were challenged by 1960s counterculture. For example, Edgerton suggests Draper's interactions with women illustrate "the slow enervation that was then occurring to the male position," citing a scene in which Draper walks out on a meeting with a prospective woman client because she's outspoken and assertive. Edgerton's smart analysis highlights the brilliant ways that Mad Men punctured rose-colored views of the '60s, and the behind-the-scenes stories captivate. Fans will be enthralled.
