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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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  inside/outside problems (conscious/unconscious, surface/depth, role/essence, superstructure/base, etc.), ...
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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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  silhouetted man ends up outside the building; we just see him in a graceful freefall for over half of the ...
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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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  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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    ‘[One] is always “inside” power, there is no “escaping” it, there is no absolute outside where it is ...
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  The Oppressive Rectangularity of the Fluorescent Light

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  Jeremy Butler University of Alabama

  April 22, 2009

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  delineates its power structure. Secretary Peggy is positioned outside executive Don’s office, a faceless “new ...
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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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  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 ...