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Mad Men Carousel (Paperback Edition): The Complete Critical Companion

English

By (author): Matt Zoller Seitz

Illustrated by: Max Dalton

Mad Men Carousel is an episode-by-episode guide to all seven seasons of AMC's Mad Men. This book collects TV and movie critic Matt Zoller Seitzs celebrated Mad Men recapsas featured on New York magazine's Vulture blogfor the first time, including never-before-published essays on the shows first three seasons. Seitzs writing digs deep into the shows themes, performances, and filmmaking, examining complex and sometimes confounding aspects of the series. The complete seriesall seven seasons and ninety-two episodesis covered.   Each episode review also includes brief explanations of locations, events, consumer products, and scientific advancements that are important to the characters, such as P.J. Clarkes restaurant and the old Penn Station; the inventions of the birth control pill, the Xerox machine, and the Apollo Lunar Module; the release of the Beatles Revolver and the Beach Boys Pet Sounds; and all the wars, protests, assassinations, and murders that cast a bloody pall over a chaotic decade.   Mad Men Carousel is named after an iconic moment from the shows first-season finale, The Wheel, wherein Don delivers an unforgettable pitch for a new slide projector thats centered on the idea of nostalgia: the pain from an old wound. This book will soothe the most ardent Mad Men fans nostalgia for the show. New viewers, who will want to binge-watch their way through one of the most popular TV shows in recent memory, will discover a spoiler-friendly companion to one of the most multilayered and mercurial TV shows of all time.  It's the perfect gift for Mad Men fans and obsessives. Also available from Matt Zoller Seitz: The Oliver Stone Experience, The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads, The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Wes Anderson Collection.   See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 510g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 228mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Oct 2017
  • Publisher: Abrams
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781419729461

About Matt Zoller Seitz

Matt Zoller Seitz is the TV critic for New York Magazine the editor-in-chief of RogerEbert.com a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism and the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Wes Anderson Collection (Abrams 2013) and The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Abrams 2015) as well as the forthcoming The Oliver Stone Experience (Abrams 2016). He is the founder and original editor of The House Next Door now a part of Slant Magazine and the publisher of Press Play a blog of film and TV criticism and video essays. A Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker Seitz has written narrated edited or produced more than a hundred hours worth of video essays about cinema history and style for The Museum of the Moving Image and The L Magazine among other outlets. His five-part 2009 video essay Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style was later spun off into The Wes Anderson Collection and his 2008 video essay series Oliver Stone: The Official History is the partial basis for The Oliver Stone Experience.   Megan Abbott is the Edgar®-winning author of the novels Queenpin The Song Is You Die a Little Bury Me Deep The End of Everything Dare Me and her latest The Fever which was chosen as one of the Best Books of the Summer by the New York Times People magazine and Entertainment Weekly and one of the Best Books of the Year by Amazon National Public Radio the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times.   Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Salon the Guardian the Wall Street Journal the Los Angeles Times Magazine the Believer and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Abbott is also the author of a nonfiction book The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir and the editor of A Hell of a Woman an anthology of female crime fiction. She has been nominated for many awards including three Edgar® Awards the Hammett Prize the Shirley Jackson Prize the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Folio Prize. She lives in New York City.   Max Dalton is a graphic artist living in Buenos Aires Argentina by way of Barcelona New York and Paris. He has published a few books and illustrated some others including The Wes Anderson Collection (Abrams 2012) and The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel (Abrams 2014). Max started painting in 1977 and since 2008 he has been creating posters about music movies and pop culture.

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