21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television Debarchana Baruah

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baruah, Debarchana <p>Debarchana Baruah, Universität Tübingen, Deutschland</p>, Author.

Series:

American Culture Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Retro.

Mad Men.

1960s.

America.

Film.

Television.

Nostalgia.

Actor-Network Theory.

Culture.

American Studies.

Cultural Studies.

Local Subjects:

Retro.

Mad Men.

1960s.

America.

Film.

Television.

Nostalgia.

Actor-Network Theory.

Culture.

American Studies.

Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Baruah, 21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America ...

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2021

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Debarchana Baruah is a cultural theorist at the American Studies department, University of Tübingen. She completed her doctoral studies at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University and received her B.A., M.A., and M.Phil. degrees in English Literature from the University of Delhi. She is interested in US popular cultures, film and television, memory cultures, food cultures, and immigration histories.

Summary:

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.

Besprochen in:https://lpcm.hypotheses.org, 4 (2021)

»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.«

»This book is undoubtedly a great achievement and presents a valuable resource for everyone interested in the retro mode, nostalgia, memory, and, of course, in Mad Men and its retroperspective on the United States in the 1960s.«

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I

Chapter 1: Retro

Chapter 2: History in Retros

Part II

Chapter 3: Television Memories and Intertextualities in Mad Men

Chapter 4: Mad Men and its Paratexts

Part III

Chapter 5: The Mad Men Network

Conclusion

List of Mad Men Episodes Cited

Works Cited

ISBN:

9783839457214

3839457211

OCLC:

1248759236