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  • Introduction
    • America’s Next Top Model, Laurie Ouellette
    • Bala Loca, David Miranda Hardy
    • Battlestar Galactica, Suzanne Scott
    • Being Mary Jane, Kristen J. Warner
    • Better Call Saul, Jason Mittell
    • Buckwild, Amanda Ann Klein
    • Challenging Stereotypes, Evelyn Alsultany
    • East Los High, Mary Beltrán
    • Empire, Racquel Gates
    • Everyday Italian, Michael Z. Newman
    • Fox & Friends, Jeffrey P. Jones
    • Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Amber Day
    • Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Myles McNutt
    • Glee/House Hunters International, Ron Becker
    • Gossip Girl, Louisa Stein
    • Grey’s Anatomy, Elana Levine
    • High Maintenance and The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Aymar Jean Christian
    • House, Amanda D. Lotz
    • I Love Lucy, Miranda J. Banks
    • Looking, Hunter Hargraves
    • Mad Men, Jeremy G. Butler
    • Master of None, Ritesh Mehta
    • Modern Family, Kevin Sandler
    • Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Philip Scepanski
    • NFL Broadcasts, Melissa A. Click, Holly Willson Holladay, and Amanda Nell Edgar
    • Nip/Tuck, Ben Aslinger
    • One Life to Live, Abigail De Kosnik
    • Orange Is the New Black, Mary Celeste Kearney
    • Pardon the Interruption, Ethan Tussey
    • Parks and Recreation, Heather Hendershot
    • Roseanne, Taylor Cole Miller
    • Tales from the Crypt, Luke Stadel
    • The Amazing Race, Jonathan Gray
    • The Ernie Kovacs Show, Ethan Thompson
    • The Eurovision Song Contest, Anikó Imre
    • The Hunt with John Walsh, Amanda Keeler
    • The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Suzanne Leonard
    • The Sopranos, Sean O’Sullivan
    • The Toy Box, Derek Johnson
    • The Walking Dead, Henry Jenkins
    • America’s Next Top Model, Laurie Ouellette
    • Bala Loca, David Miranda Hardy
    • Battlestar Galactica, Suzanne Scott
    • Being Mary Jane, Kristen J. Warner
    • Better Call Saul, Jason Mittell
    • Buckwild, Amanda Ann Klein
    • Challenging Stereotypes, Evelyn Alsultany
    • East Los High, Mary Beltrán
    • Empire, Racquel Gates
    • Everyday Italian, Michael Z. Newman
    • Fox & Friends, Jeffrey P. Jones
    • Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Amber Day
    • Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, Myles McNutt
    • Glee/House Hunters International, Ron Becker
    • Gossip Girl, Louisa Stein
    • Grey’s Anatomy, Elana Levine
    • High Maintenance and The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Aymar Jean Christian
    • House, Amanda D. Lotz
    • I Love Lucy, Miranda J. Banks
    • Looking, Hunter Hargraves
    • Mad Men, Jeremy G. Butler
    • Master of None, Ritesh Mehta
    • Modern Family, Kevin Sandler
    • Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Philip Scepanski
    • NFL Broadcasts, Melissa A. Click, Holly Willson Holladay, and Amanda Nell Edgar
    • Nip/Tuck, Ben Aslinger
    • One Life to Live, Abigail De Kosnik
    • Orange Is the New Black, Mary Celeste Kearney
    • Pardon the Interruption, Ethan Tussey
    • Parks and Recreation, Heather Hendershot
    • Roseanne, Taylor Cole Miller
    • Tales from the Crypt, Luke Stadel
    • The Amazing Race, Jonathan Gray
    • The Ernie Kovacs Show, Ethan Thompson
    • The Eurovision Song Contest, Anikó Imre
    • The Hunt with John Walsh, Amanda Keeler
    • The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Suzanne Leonard
    • The Sopranos, Sean O’Sullivan
    • The Toy Box, Derek Johnson
    • The Walking Dead, Henry Jenkins
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments

Mad Men

book User's Guide To Popular Culture for How to Watch Television
by Jeremy G. Butler
Abstract: Through a detailed examination of how the visual look of Mad Men conveys the show’s meanings and emotional affect, Jeremy G. Butler provides a model for how to perform a close analysis of television style for a landmark contemporary series.

This essay may be found on page 51 of the printed volume.

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