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Books
Beail, Linda and Lilly J. Goren. Mad Men and Politics: Nostalgia and the Remaking of Modern America. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015.
The chapters of this book analyze the most important dimensions explored on the show, including issues around gender, race, prejudice, the family, generational change, the social movements of the 1960s, our understanding of America’s place in the world, and the idea of work in the post-war period. -Amazon
Bigsby, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to American Modern Culture.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century. This companion explores the social, political and economic forces that have made America what it is today. It shows how these contexts impact upon twentieth-century American literature, cinema and art. An international team of contributors examines the special contribution of African Americans and of immigrant communities to the variety and vibrancy of modern America -Amazon
Booker, M. Keith and Bob Batchelor. Mad Men: A Cultural History. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
In Mad Men: A Cultural History, M. Keith Booker and Bob Batchelor offer an engaging analysis of the series, providing in-depth examinations of its many themes and nostalgic portrayals of the years from Camelot to Vietnam and beyond. -Amazon
Brown, Helen Gurley. Sex and the Single Girl. 50th ed. Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, 2003.
*Matthew Weiner said this was his inspiration behind Joan’s character.*
Carveth, Rod and James B. South, editors. Mad Men and Philosophy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
From Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to John Kenneth Galbraith, Milton Friedman, and Ayn Rand, Mad Men and Philosophy brings the thinking of some of history’s most powerful minds to bear on the world of Don Draper and the Sterling Cooper ad agency. You’ll gain insights into a host of compelling Mad Men questions and issues, including happiness, freedom, authenticity, feminism, Don Draper’s identity, and more. -Amazon
de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. London: Jonathan Cape, 2009.
In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir posed questions many men, and women, had yet to ponder when the book was released in 1953. “One wonders if women still exist, if they will always exist, whether or not it is desirable that they should …,” she says in this comprehensive treatise on women. She weaves together history, philosophy, economics, biology, and a host of other disciplines to show women’s place in the world and to postulate on the power of sexuality. -Amazon
Dill-Shackleford, Karen E., et al. Mad Men Unzipped: Fans on Sex, Love, and the Sixties on TV. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015.
In this book, four media psychologists who also just happen to be dedicated Mad Men fans explore how the show’s viewers make meaning from fictional drama. -Amazon
Dunn, Jennifer C., et al, editors. Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch: Thinking about TV’s Mad Men. 2nd ed. Newcastle upon Thyme: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
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; its interrogations into identities, and how these interrogations of the past illuminate viewers’ concepts of the present; and, the compelling (and often heartbreaking) relationships between characters who are trying to make their way in an ever-changing and increasingly complex world. It also includes: the titillation of the characters’ discovery of the powers of mass mediated communication and its abilities to allow learning, information sharing, manipulation, and connection; and, of course, the striking differences in sex roles and sexuality in the workplace that simultaneously celebrates and challenges views of gendered progress in contemporary times. -Amazon
Edgerton, editor. Mad Men: Dream Come True TV. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011.
They are living out the American dream. Then why are they so unhappy? Why is their ‘dream come true’ not enough? Mad Men explores, analyses and celebrates this cutting edge TV drama and popular phenomenon. It also includes an interview with the show’s Executive Producer Scott Hornbacher and an episode guide. -Amazon
Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. 50th ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
*Matthew Weiner said this was his inspiration for Betty’s character.*
Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of “the problem that has no name”: the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined women’s confidence in their intellectual capabilities and kept them in the home. Writing in a time when the average woman first married in her teens and 60 percent of women students dropped out of college to marry, Betty Friedan captured the frustrations and thwarted ambitions of a generation and showed women how they could reclaim their lives. Part social chronicle, part manifesto, The Feminine Mystique is filled with fascinating anecdotes and interviews as well as insights that continue to inspire. -Amazon
Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems. Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2015.
Ginsberg began work on “Howl” as early as 1954. “Howl” is considered to be one of the great works of American literature. It came to be associated with the group of writers known as the Beat Generation, which included Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.
O’Hara, Frank. Meditations in an Emergency. 2nd ed. New York: Grove Press, 1967.
Frank O’Hara was one of the great poets of the twentieth century and, along with such widely acclaimed writers as Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder, a crucial contributor to what Donald Allen termed the New American Poetry, “which, by its vitality alone, became the dominant force in the American poetic tradition.” -Amazon
Seitz, Matt Zoller. Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion. New York: Abrams, 2015.
Seitz’s writing digs deep into the show’s themes, performances, and filmmaking, examining complex and sometimes confounding aspects of the series. -Amazon
Stoddart, Scott F., editor. Analyzing Mad Men: Critical Essays on the Television Series. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company: 2011.
The 12 critical essays in this collection offer a broad, interdisciplinary approach to this highly relevant television show, examining Mad Men as a cultural barometer for contemporary concerns with consumerism, capitalism and sexism. Topics include New Historicist parallels between the 1960s and the present day, psychoanalytical approaches to the show, the self as commodity, and the “Age of Camelot” as an “Age of Anxiety,” among others. -Amazon
DVDs
Cook, Fielder, director. Patterns. United Artists, 2005.
Hitchcock, Alfred, director. North by Northwest. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, 2010.
Hitchcock, Alfred, director. Vertigo. Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection. Universal City, CA: Universal, 2005.
Mad Men: The Complete Collection. Lionsgate Entertainment, 2015.
Negulesco, Jean, director. The Best of Everything. Twentieth Century Fox, 2005.
Wilder, Billy, director. The Apartment . Beverly Hills, CA: Twentieth Century Fox, 2007.
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