Dr Iris Kleinecke-Bates I.Kleinecke-Bates@hull.ac.uk
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies
Dr Iris Kleinecke-Bates I.Kleinecke-Bates@hull.ac.uk
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies
Mad Men utilizes television, quotes television and contemplates and negotiates its role, to the extent that the show is also about television, mediating it as diegetic and non-diegetic, within and without, deliberately returning to the medium's early days in memory and celebration of itself and its origin, all the while making full use of the various media platforms that it has at its disposal today to promote itself and construct itself as a nostalgic object of desire. Part of a television experience that fetishizes the materiality of authentic objects, the show constructs a mise en abyme of longing and nostalgia that positions the television set at its very centre. This article will trace the role of television in AMC's Mad Men (2007-15). It will examine the medium's developing role in modern life, and the way it is used to integrate the show's narrative within a wider sense of history. Moreover, it will contemplate the way the medium is constructed both within the diegetic reality of the show and outside it, as authentic period prop and as a fetishized nostalgia object that is itself again framed and distributed by television.
Kleinecke-Bates, I. (2019). Television style/stylish television: Mad Men, television and the fashioning of the self. Journal of Popular Television, 7(2), 217-234. https://doi.org/10.1386/jptv.7.2.217_1
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Sep 17, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 1, 2019 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Oct 16, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 2, 2020 |
Journal | Journal of Popular Television |
Print ISSN | 2046-9861 |
Publisher | Intellect |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 7 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 217-234 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1386/jptv.7.2.217_1 |
Keywords | Materiality; Television; Television materiality; Mad Men; Television history |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1119459 |
Contract Date | Oct 16, 2018 |
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