Realism, Mimesis, and the Commodity in Season One of Mad Men

This article focuses on one scene from the episode entitled “The Wheel”, in which a machine allows the characters to time-travel, within a series which does the same. Michael Taussig’s theories on mimesis, expressed in his book Magic and Mimesis, will be used here to argue that what is being faithfu...

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Main Author: Beth Kowaleski Wallace
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Groupe de Recherche Identités et Cultures 2012-05-01
Series:TV Series
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/tvseries/1091