Don, Betty and Jackie Kennedy: On Mad Men and Periodisation

Black, Prudence; Driscoll, Catherine

doi:10.5130/csr.v18i2.2764

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“…Time is not simply dislocated through the conceit that we are watching a period drama. It is also visually rendered for viewers, as Black and Driscoll (2012) have argued, through the inclusion of scenes from a carefully selected television archive. The relay of the passage of time is accentuated in this way, and the viewer has a keen sense of its importance for the narrative that unfolds across an extended period of years in the present moment.…”

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Television as psychical object: Mad Men and the value of psychoanalysis for television scholarship

Bainbridge

2019

Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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Claims that Mad Men (2007–2015) is an obedient post-feminist text overlook the drama’s images of both women and the history of feminism and its potential to impact on contemporary understandings of gender politics. Mad Men can be seen as a psychological object, helping viewers to explore links between their own experience and that of characters on screen as the narrative unfolds. Making links between the social re-emergence of feminist awareness, the drama’s representations of second-wave feminism and a psychoanalytic understanding of mourning, I suggest that a return to psychoanalytic methodologies has the potential to enrich television scholarship.

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Section: The Temporalities Of Mad Menmentioning

confidence: 99%