MAD MEN: LOOKING BACK IN WONDER
MAD MEN: LOOKING BACK IN WONDER

Summary/Abstract: Mad Men: Looking Back in Wonder. This study focuses on the literary roots of the popular television series Mad Men, namely Sloan Wilson’s 1955 novel The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and Richard Yates 1961 debut novel Revolutionary Road, and on the genuine dialogue in which they engage at the level of character portrayal and argument. Their intertextual triangle offers an illustrative example of cultural recycling and re-contextualizing of 1960’s domestic and professional dilemmas for a twenty-first century medium and public. The success and longevity of Mad Men are raised upon the constant appeal of this tumultuous decade for contemporary audiences and capitalize on the universality of the issues it foregrounded.

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