Don and Betty Draper live in a picture-perfect world.
He is a hard-living advertising executive - a 'mad man'
- on the fast track. She's a Bryn Mawr graduate and
former fashion model, now a suburban princess, mother of
three children. If they've everything, why are they so
unhappy? Why is their dream come true not enough? This
book explores, analyses, celebrates the world of ''Mad
Men'' in all its aspects, and includes an interview with
it's Executive Producer and an episode guide. Every few
years a new television program comes along to capture
and express the zeitgeist. ''Mad Men'' is now that show.
Since premiering in July 2007, it's won many awards and
is syndicated across the globe. Its imprint is evident
throughout contemporary culture, from features to
fashions and online debate. Its creator Matthew Weiner,
a former exec producer on ''The Sopranos'', has created
again compelling, complex characters, this time in the
sophisticated go-go world of Madison Avenue through the
1960s, with the excessive drinking and smoking, as well
as the playing out of the prejudices and anxieties of an
era long neglected in popular culture.''Mad Men'' is a
zeitgeist show of the early twenty-first century, this
book demonstrates, partly because its characters are an
earlier, confused and conflicted version of ourselves,
trying to make the best of a future unfolding at
breakneck speed. |
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