AMC’s Mad Men and the Politics of Nostalgia [Book Chapter]

Authors

David Pierson PhD, University of Southern Maine

Files

Document Type

Book Chapter

Description

Book chapter "AMC’s Mad Men and the Politics of Nostalgia" from Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the past, present and Future edited by Katharina Niemeyer.

Media and Nostalgia is an interdisciplinary and international exploration of media and their relation to nostalgia. Each chapter demonstrates how nostalgia has always been a media-related matter, studying also the recent nostalgia boom by analysing, among others, digital photography, television series and home videos.

ISBN

978-1-137-37588-9

Publication Date

2014

Publisher

Palgrave-Macmillan

City

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire

Keywords

mass media, nostalgia, society, collective memory

Disciplines

Broadcast and Video Studies | Communication | Communication Technology and New Media | Critical and Cultural Studies | Mass Communication | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social Influence and Political Communication

Recommended Citation

Pierson, David. "AMC's Mad Men and the Politics of Nostalgia." Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, Present and Future, edited by Katharina Niemeyer, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014, pp. 139-51.