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

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21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television is written by Debarchana Baruah and published by transcript Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3839457211 (ISBN 10) and 9783839457214 (ISBN 13).

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.