Mad Men

ISBN: 9781848853799 出版年：2010 页码：295 Gary R Edgarton Bloomsbury Publishing

Don and Betty Draper live in a picture-perfect world. He is a hard-living advertising executive -on tShe'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 "Mits 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. "Mthat show. Since premiering in July 2007, it's wand 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, thsophisticated go-go world of Madison Avenue through the 1960s, with the excessive drinking and smoking, playing out of the prejudices and anxieties of an era long neglected in popular culture."Mad Men" is a zeitgeiearly twenty-first century, this book demonstrates, partly because its characters are an earlier, confused and conflicted version of ourselves, trying to make the beunfolding at breakneck speed.