This Collection Of Essays Takes An Unprecedented Look At The Philosophical Issues And Themes Behind Amc's Emmy Award-winning Show, Mad Men, Exploring Issues Ranging From Identity To Authenticity To Feminism, And More. People May See Things Differently, But They Don't Really Want To : Mad Men And Problems Of Knowledge And Freedom. What Fools We Were: Mad Men, Hindsight, And Justification / Landon W. Schurtz -- People Want To Be Told What To Do So Badly That They'll Listen To Anyone : Mimetic Madness At Sterling Cooper / George A. Dunn -- Capitalism And Freedom In The Affluent Society / Kevin Guilfoy -- There Is No Big Lie, There Is No System, The Universe Is Indifferent : Mad Men And The Problem Of Meaning. Pete, Peggy, Don And The Dialectic Of Remembering And Forgetting / John Fritz -- The Existential Void Of Roger Sterling / Raymond Angelo Belliotti -- Egoless Egoists: The Second-hand Lives Of Mad Men / Robert White -- An Existential Look At Mad Men: Don Draper, Advertising, And The Promise Of Happiness / Ada S. Jaarsma -- And You Know What Happiness Is? Mad Men And Ethics. In On It: Honesty, Respect, And The Ethics Of Advertising / Andreja Novakovic And Tyler Whitney -- Creating The Need For The New: It's Not The Wheel, It's The Carousel / George Teschner And Gabrielle Teschner -- You're Looking In The Wrong Direction: Mad Men And The Ethics Of Advertising / Adam Barkman -- Is Don Draper A Good Man? / Andrew Terjesen -- Don Draper, On How To Make Oneself (whole Again) / John Elia -- No One Else Is Saying The Right Thing About This: Mad Men And Social Philosophy. And Nobody Understands That, But You Do: The Aristotelian Ideal Of Friendship Among The Mad Men (and Women) / Abigail E. Myers -- Mad Women: Aristotle, Second-wave Feminism, And The Women In Mad Men / Ashley Jihee Barkman -- We've Got Bigger Problems To Worry About Than Tv, Okay? Mad Men And Race / Rod Carveth -- New York City Is A Marvelous Machine: Mad Men And The Power Of Social Convention / James B. South. Edited By Rod Carveth And James B. South. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
Categories:
- Humor & Entertainment
- Performing Arts
Publisher : Wiley
Author : Irwin, W
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2010-05-14
Number Of Pages : 272
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0470603011
ISBN-13 : 9780470603017
Item weight : 0.93 lb
Dimensions : 0.71 in x 5.98 in x 8.94 in
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