Jeremy Butler
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From THE APARTMENT to THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
I never thought to tie Mad Men 's anxieties into those of The Manchurian Candidate, but the connection makes perfect sense. Thank you for this insight. And how appropriate that Frankenheimer's film was released in the year in which season two ... -
Mad Women in Mad Men
Janet and Kim: I enjoyed your post, especially your comment: At episode end both Joan and Peggy shed their feminine performance. Joan dismantles her constructed-ness while Peggy washes hers away. Both contemplate the collateral damage of narrative ev ... -
Falling Iconography
Mad Men 's opening credits, as Gary points out, are a perfect evocation of the late 1950s/early 1960s, right down to the furniture and the fluorescent lights (see my post on Wednesday regarding those oppressive rectangles). And the connections to Bas ... -
Re: Public and Private Spaces
Thanks, Allison, for pointing out the gender reversal of public/private space in MM. I didn't think of it in precisely those terms before. Also, I missed the obvious: The Crowd/Apartment victims of corporate dehumanization are both men while MM place ... -
Another Behind-the-Scenes Look (at Season 2)
My colleague, Chuck Kleinhans, pointed me in the direction of a piece from In Camera detailing some of the post-production work done on the eps in season 2: http://motion.kodak.com/US/en/motion/Publications/In_Camera/Focus_on_Post/madMen.htm There' ... -
For years I've taught
For years I've taught serialized melodrama that rates even lower on the cultural respectability scale than GG. I'm talking about daytime soap opera. And I've had the inevitable newspaper articles written about it that I put in the category ... -
Today's top ten list from
Today's top ten list from David Letterman: TOP TEN REASONS FIDEL CASTRO IS RETIRING. #7 Just got Season One of "Gilmore Girls" ... -
Best example of
Best example of Eisensteinian montage I've seen in a long time! ... -
Tim: As you may have heard,
Tim: As you may have heard, The Office was an early success for NBC on iTunes. Which raises an interesting issue for visually inventive sitcoms: How well will they fair on the itty-bitty iPod screen? Directors like Ken Kwapis (who's done Larry Sander ... -
I'm intrigued by the way
I'm intrigued by the way that Dan has recast the notion of guilt to include shame for taking pleasure in the mediocre, for a guilty pleasure that most would think is "pleasure sans guilt." In CONTACT, we have a film that garnered mostly pos ...