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  "Mad Men" and/as Teleparody

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  David Lavery Middle Tennessee State University

  April 24, 2009

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  parodiable wasn't there to begin with? Why is Mad Men so easily parodied?   See as well:  ...
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  Falling Man and Mad Men (1:54)

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  Gary Edgerton Old Dominion University

  April 20, 2009

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  is the depiction of the male protagonist falling from the top of a skyscraper. The action begins as ... begins to implode, almost melting. A small rotating fan spins in an open window, but we never see how the ...
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  Sunday driver: What does AMC's scheduling say about its branding?

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  Andrew Daglas ChicagoNow.com

  November 03, 2011

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  back at least to The Sopranos, which aired its first-run episodes on Sundays between 1999 and 2007. ...
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  Don Draper’s Mask: Evoking the Cinematic

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  Rashna Wadia Richards Rhodes College

  March 21, 2019

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  Don Draper’s Mask: Evoking the Cinematic cinematic Mad Men serial drama Curator's Note Among the most cinematic serial dramas,  Mad Men  (AMC, 2008-15) is often analyzed in relation to its key inspirations, like Hitchcock’s  North by Northwest  (1959 ...
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  Why Women Don’t Get Ahead In Advertising

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  Janet McCabe and Kim Akass Manchester Metropolitan University

  April 21, 2009

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  Why Women Don’t Get Ahead In Advertising women Mad Men Joan Holloway Peggy Olson Foucault Silence Curator's Note Psst! Wanna know a secret. Mad Men isn’t about men at all.   But about subjectivities in the making: how men construct identities for wom ...
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  G.I. Dick: Don Draper as Korean War Veteran

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  Allison Perlman University of California-Irvine

  April 23, 2009

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  G.I. Dick: Don Draper as Korean War Veteran Mad Men Korean War Veterans Curator's Note The first thing we learn about Don Draper’s past is that he is a veteran; in the series premiere, Don takes a box containing his purple heart out of his office des ...
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  That Soothing Balm of Latent Discontent: MAD MEN Unstresses the 21st Century

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  Frank Kelleter Göttingen University (Germany)

  December 12, 2011

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  That Soothing Balm of Latent Discontent: MAD MEN Unstresses the 21st Century television series seriality Popular Seriality Mad Men Curator's Note MAD MEN is part of a larger group of popular series that share a competitive interest in televisual &quo ...