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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. ... be first-class dramas. As a sign of this, AMC has restricted its first-run original programming to ...
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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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  first thing we learn about Don Draper’s past is that he is a veteran; in the series premiere, Don takes ... we meet the “real” Don Draper and that we learn how Dick Whitman assumes his identity (illustrated in ... learn that both Don/Dick and Lt. Draper are serving for personal rather than ideological ...
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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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  it simultaneously delays any substantial resolution. The problem is not that we don’t learn who ...
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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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  The Oppressive Rectangularity of the Fluorescent Light visual style Mad Men fluorescent light mise-en-scene Curator's Note Is there a lighting fixture more oppressive than the fluorescent light, with its buzzing rectangularity? Mad Men continues a ci ...
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  Nostalgia 2.0: AMC and the Development of Original Retro Programming

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  JP Kelly Royal Holloway, University of London

  October 31, 2011

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  Nostalgia 2.0: AMC and the Development of Original Retro Programming The Walking Dead The Lot retro Remember WENN nostalgia Mad Men Basic Cable AMC Curator's Note In the season one finale of  Mad Men  (2007 –), series’ protagonist and suave ad man Do ...
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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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  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 ...