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Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities. Debarchana Baruah offers a vocabulary to discuss these, using Mad Men as a primary case study and supplementing the analysis with other examples from the US and around the world. She takes a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to studying film and television, drawing from history, memory, and nostalgia discourses, and layering them with theories of intertextuality, paratexts, and actor-networks. The book's compositions style invites discussions from scholars of various fields, as well as those who are simply fans of history or of Mad Men.
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21st Century Retro: Mad Men and 1960s America in Film and Television, Debarchana Baruah
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- 2021
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- Title
- 21st Century Retro: Mad Men and 1960s America in Film and Television
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Debarchana Baruah
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 246
- ISBN10
- 3837657213
- ISBN13
- 9783837657210
- Series
- Rating
- 3 out of 5
- Description
- Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities. Debarchana Baruah offers a vocabulary to discuss these, using Mad Men as a primary case study and supplementing the analysis with other examples from the US and around the world. She takes a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to studying film and television, drawing from history, memory, and nostalgia discourses, and layering them with theories of intertextuality, paratexts, and actor-networks. The book's compositions style invites discussions from scholars of various fields, as well as those who are simply fans of history or of Mad Men.