21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television
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| Verlag | transcript |
| Auflage | 2021 |
| Seiten | 246 |
| Format | 14,7 x 22,6 x 1,5 cm |
| Gewicht | 666 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | American Culture Studies 32 |
| ISBN-10 | 3837657213 |
| EAN | 9783837657210 |
| Bestell-Nr | 83765721A |
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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»A lush and exhaustive inspection of the ideas and tools of retro in film and TV, that will appeal to more than just a few readers, as nostalgia and audiovisual pleasures of the past seemingly attract all audiences sooner or later.« A. Ebert, www.popcultureshelf.com, 28.09.2022 Besprochen in: https://lpcm.hypotheses.org, 4 (2021)