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- Title
MAD MEN'S SERIALLY FALLING MAN.
- Authors
SANDBERG, MARK
- Abstract
The opening credits of Mad Men have often been mentioned as part of a broader post-9/11 cultural repertoire that imagines the act of falling. This article argues that falling is a powerful way to depict the fetishistic knowledge structures that are typical of both serial period dramas and trauma narratives more generally: the dilation of time around a turning point, the repeated rehearsal of the oblivious moment before the dramatic change, the investigation of the consequences of traumatic knowledge, and the scarred sense of futurity. Mad Men, like other period serials, asks whether it matters to know in time.
- Subjects
MAD Men (TV program); ACCIDENTAL falls in mass media; OPENING &; closing credits; TELEVISION series -- Social aspects; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film & Television, 2017, Issue 79, p4
- ISSN
0149-1830
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7560/VLT7902