Hi Everyone--
This is especially for my American lit. students and screenwriters, but all might be interested: the terrific and oft-feted AMC TV series MadMen begins its third season Sunday Aug. 16. If you haven't seen the show yet and are unaware, it chronicles the lives in and around a New York City advertising agency from the late Fifties till about 1963. It's incredibly period-accurate and really cool to look at. Besides that, the writing is sharp, sharp, sharp, and deals with many of the issues we'll be talking about in our American lit. classes: gender, racial, and sexual politics, the Red Scare, White Flight, the rise of new media, and the expansion of our American Capitalist system. If you have cable, great! If not, you can find episodes online, through iTunes, and, of course, you can rent older seasons at your local Blockbuster or through Netflix. Check it out HERE!
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