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(dis)junctions: Mad Men
| Location: | California, United States |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2010-03-05 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-02-19 |
| Announcement ID: |
174249 |
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Contributors are welcome to submit papers investigating the popular AMC television show Mad Men. In keeping with this year’s conference theme, submissions of particular interest might deal with issues of crisis in the lives of the characters or in the cultural milieu of the show’s 1960s setting. Possible topics include:
The multiple lives of Don Draper
Betty Draper and female sexuality
The show’s depiction of race/gender/sexuality
Pregnancy as crisis
Advertising and the moral crisis of American Capitalism
Mad Men and the changing face of the American workplace
The Cuban Missile Crisis / JFK Assassination and collective response to (inter)national crisis
Mad Men and Frank O’Hara’s “Meditations in an Emergency”
Cultural nostalgia and Mad Men’s popularity today
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be emailed to Ray Crosby at raycrosby@gmail.com by March 5, 2010. Please indicate any A/V needs.
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