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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460644103321

Titolo

Lucky strikes and a three martini lunch : thinking about television's Mad Men / / edited by Jennifer C. Dunn, Jimmie Manning and Danielle M. Stern

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-8422-7

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Disciplina

791.4572

Soggetti

Nineteen sixties

Electronic books.

United States Social life and customs 1945-1970

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This second edition of Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch: Thinking About Television's Mad Men explores the attributes of the AMC series that allow it to be such a popular and vital contribution to contemporary cultural discourse. Set in the 1960's in New York, the Emmy and Peabody-winning series follows the competitive, seductive, and oftentimes ruthless lives of the men and women of Madison Avenue's advertising agencies. Many alluring and captivating qualities constitute the Mad Men experience: the way it evokes nostalgia, even from those who did not live in the era being portrayed;....