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  Quality television-by-numbers: Veena Sud and AMC's failed products and faulty assumptions

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  November 02, 2011

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  alongside well-respected television greats like Mad Men and The Sopranos, series that are known for much ...
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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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  presence of our experience of art is now harder to feel.   Would this sea-change have been possible if the ...
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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 ...
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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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  Sunday driver: What does AMC's scheduling say about its branding? The Sopranos Sunday TV Mad Men HBO AMC Curator's Note In an era often heralded as a golden age of television, few networks have made the notion of “quality TV” as central to its b ...
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  Television's "Bad" Mothers: Putting the "Anti" in the Antiheroine

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  Barbara Selznick University of Arizona

  February 13, 2015

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  Television's "Bad" Mothers: Putting the "Anti" in the Antiheroine The Killing The Americans Television’s Female Antihero(ine) Mothers Mad Men Curator's Note  To get to the (simplified) point: U.S. television’s antiheroines ar ...
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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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  Falling Man and Mad Men (1:54) Mad Men Falling Man Post-9/11 Perspective Opening Credit Sequence Curator's Note Mad Men ’s opening credit sequence is full of obvious and hidden clues as to what this series is all about. The program is a stylistic hyb ...