Don, Betty and Jackie Kennedy
On Mad Men and Periodisation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2642031 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Black (0000-0001-8493-2830, The University of Sydney, corresponding author), Catherine Driscoll (0000-0002-9842-0534, The University of Sydney) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-17 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692 |
| Publisher | University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5130/csr.v18i2.2764 |
| OpenAlex | W2038263625 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
Why is it that we watch Mad Men and think it represents a period? Flashes of patterned wallpaper, whiskey neat, babies born that are never mentioned, contact lining for kitchen drawers, Ayn Rand, polaroids, skinny ties, Hilton hotels, Walter Cronkite, and a time when Don Draper can ask 'What do women want?' and dry old Roger Sterling can reply 'Who Cares?' This essay explores the embrace of period detail in Mad Men finding it to be both loving and fetishistic, and belonging, like all period film, to the politics of the present
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Objectivism · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Cultural History and Identity Formation · History · Law · Music History and Culture
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |