Mad Men

Gary R. Edgerton is Eminent Scholar, Professor, and Chair of the Communication and Theatre Arts Department at Old Dominion University. He has published eight books, more than seventy-five essays on a wide assortment of media and culture topics, and is co-editor of the Journal of Popular Film and Television.

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsCreative Team and Cast ListForeword: From Rod Serling to Roger SterlingRobert ThompsonIntroduction: When Our Parents Became UsGary R. EdgertonPart 1-Industry and Authorship1. The Selling of Mad Men: A Production HistoryGary Edgerton2. Women on the Verge of the Second Wave: At Home and At Work in Mad MenMary Beth Haralovich 3. ‘If It’s Too Easy, Then Usually There’s Something Wrong’: An Interview with Mad Men’s Executive Producer Scott HornbacherBrian RosePart 2-Visual and Aural Stylistics and Influences4. ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’: Historicizing Visual Style in Mad MenJeremy Butler5. Uneasy Listening: Music, Sound, and Criticizing Camelot in Mad MenPopular Music and Social Change in Mad MenTim Anderson6. Suggestive Silence in Season OneMaurice YacowarPart 3-Narrative Dynamics and Genealogy7. Learning to Live with Television in Mad MenHorace Newcomb8. Space Ships and Time Machines: Mad Men and the Serial ConditionSean O’Sullivan9. ‘The Catastrophe of My Personality’: Frank O’Hara, Don Draper,and the Poetics of Mad MenDavid LaveryPart 4-Sexual Politics and Gender Roles10. Mad WomenMimi White11. The Best of Everything: The Limits of Being a Working Girl in Mad Men Kim Akass and Janet McCabe12. Men Behaving as Boys: The Cultural Matrix of Mad Men William SiskaPart 5-Suburbia, Advertising, and the American Dream13. The Strange Career of Mad Men: Race, Paratexts,and Civil Rights MemoryAllison Perlman14. Don Draper Confronts the Maddest Men of the Sixties:Bob Dylan and George Lois and Bob DylanRon Simon15. Mad Men: A Roots Tale of the Information AgeDavid MarcNotesEpisode GuideSelected Film and TV ProgramsSelected BibliographyGeneral IndexTelevision Series Index

'In this stunning collection, a stellar lineup of television scholars explains why Mad Men is the most important work of filmed entertainmentA" on any America screen in the past decade.' - Thomas Schatz, author of The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era; 'A terrific set of essays that not only sheds light on Mad Men but also on the role that TV plays in depicting the American dreams-and nightmares-of the Baby Boom past.' - Lynn Spigel, author of Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America; 'Matthew Weiner's Mad Men is all about the hidden meanings behind sleek surfaces and evasive silences, and Gary Edgerton's collection of essays cleverly mines those depths for a rich bounty of treasure ... one thoughtful readable chapter after another.' - David Bianculli, TVWorthWatching.com, TV critic, NPR's Fresh Air; 'Some of the leading names in television studies bring their analytical abilities to one of the best television shows of all time. A winning collection - highly recommended!' - Roberta Pearson, editor of Reading Lost: Perspectives on a Hit Television Show