21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television
Download or Read eBook 21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television PDF 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.
| Author | : Debarchana Baruah |
| Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2021-04-30 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9783839457214 |
| ISBN-13 | : 3839457211 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis 21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television by : Debarchana Baruah
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.
