A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Kate Cronin takes the Mad Men collection at the Harry Ransom Center as a case study to consider the role archives and archivists play in constructing critical conceptions of contemporary television authorship.
Read moreWhitten Overby continues his series on Mad Men, this time arguing how the show provides a “televisual geneology” of neoliberalism through characters Don Draper and Peggy Olson.
Read moreWhitten Overby continues his explorations of the intersections of architecture, technology, and gender in AMC’s Mad Men, this time through the lenses of Futurism, car travel, and the sprawling Los Angeles cityscape.
Read moreWhitten Overby argues that the modern architectural spaces and sets in AMC’s Mad Men assert white, patriarchal ideologies that challenge feminist readings of the show and illustrate the show’s shortcomings in exploring issues of racial discrimination.
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