21st Century Retro
Author | : Debarchana Baruah |
Publisher | : Transcript Publishing |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2021-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 3837657213 |
ISBN-13 | : 9783837657210 |
Rating | : 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Download or read book 21st Century Retro written by Debarchana Baruah and published by Transcript Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities. Debarchana Baruah offers a vocabulary to discuss these, using Mad Men as primary case study and supplementing the analysis with other examples from the US and around the world. She takes a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach to studying film and television, drawing from history, memory, and nostalgia discourses, and layering them with theories of intertextuality, paratexts, and actor-networks. The book's compositionist style invites discussion from scholars of various fields, as well as those who are simply fans of history or of Mad Men.