Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-409) and index
Contents:
Part I: Mad worlds. Maddening times : Mad men in its history / Dana Polan ; Mad space / Dianne Harris ; Representing the mad margins of the early sixties : Northern civil rights and the blues idiom / Clarence Lang ; After the sex, what? A feminist reading of reproductive history in Mad Men / Leslie J. Reagan ; The writer as producer; or, The hip figure after HBO / Michael Szalay Part II: Mad aesthetics. The shock of the banal : Mad Men's progressive realism / Caroline Levine ; Mod men / Jim Hansen ; Swing skirts and swinging singles : Mad men, fashion, and cultural memory / Mabel Rosenheck ; Against depth : looking at surface through the Kodak carousel / Irene Small ; "It will shock you how much this never happened" : Antonioni and Mad men / Robert A. Rushing Part III: Made men. Media madness : multiple identity (dis)orders in Mad men / Lynne Joyrich ; "Maidenform" : masculinity as masquerade / Lilya Kaganovsky ; History gets in your eyes : Mad men, misrecognition, and the masculine mystique / Jeremy Varon ; The homosexual and the single girl / Alexander Doty ; Mad men's postracial figuration of a racial past / Kent Ono ; The mad men in the attic : seriality and identity in the modern Babylon / Lauren M.E. Goodlad Afterword: Change is gonna come, same as it ever was / Michael Bérubé Appendix A. A conversation with Phil Abraham, director and cinematographer / Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Jeremy Varon, Carl Lehnen Appendix B. List of Mad men episodes
