{"product_id":"mad-men-carousel-paperback-edition-the-complete-critical-companion-9781419729461","title":"Mad Men Carousel (Paperback Edition): The Complete Critical Companion","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMad Men Carousel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is an episode-by-episode guide to all seven seasons of AMC's \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword by Megan Abbott, Edgar Award-winning author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This book collects TV and movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz's celebrated \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e recaps--as featured on \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine's \u003ci\u003eVulture \u003c\/i\u003eblog--including essays on the show's first three seasons. Seitz's writing digs deep into the show's themes, performances, and filmmaking, examining complex and sometimes confounding aspects of the series. The complete series--all seven seasons and 92 episodes--is covered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Each episode review also includes brief explanations of locations, events, consumer products, and scientific advancements that are important to the characters, such as P.J. Clarke's restaurant and the old Penn Station; the inventions of the birth control pill, the Xerox machine, and the Apollo Lunar Module; the release of the Beatles' \u003ci\u003eRevolver\u003c\/i\u003e and the Beach Boys' \u003ci\u003ePet Sounds\u003c\/i\u003e; and all the wars, protests, assassinations, and murders that cast a bloody pall over a chaotic decade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMad Men Carousel\u003c\/i\u003e is named after an iconic moment from the show's first-season finale, \"The Wheel,\" wherein Don delivers an unforgettable pitch for a new slide projector that's centered on the idea of nostalgia: \"the pain from an old wound.\" This book will soothe the most ardent \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e fan's nostalgia for the show. New viewers, who will want to binge-watch their way through one of the most popular TV shows in recent memory, will discover a spoiler-friendly companion to one of the most multilayered and mercurial TV shows of all time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's the perfect gift for \u003ci\u003eMad Men\u003c\/i\u003e fans and obsessives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes black-and-white illustrations by Max Dalton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Also available from Matt Zoller Seitz: \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Oliver Stone Experience\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wes Anderson Collection\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatt Zoller Seitz\u003c\/b\u003e is the TV critic for \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the editor in chief of RogerEbert.com, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, and the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe Wes Anderson Collection\u003c\/i\u003e (Abrams, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eThe Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel \u003c\/i\u003e(Abrams, 2015), as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Oliver Stone Experience\u003c\/i\u003e (Abrams, 2016). He is the founder and original editor of \u003ci\u003eThe House Next Door\u003c\/i\u003e, now a part of Slant Magazine, and the publisher of \u003ci\u003ePress Play\u003c\/i\u003e, a blog of film and TV criticism and video essays. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker, Seitz has written, narrated, edited, or produced more than a hundred hours' worth of video essays about cinema history and style for The Museum of the Moving Image and \u003ci\u003eThe L Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, among other outlets. His five-part 2009 video essay, \"Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style,\" was later spun off into \u003ci\u003eThe Wes Anderson Collection, \u003c\/i\u003eand his 2008 video essay series \"Oliver Stone: The Official History\" is the partial basis for \u003ci\u003eThe Oliver Stone Experience\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMegan Abbott\u003c\/b\u003e is the Edgar(R)-winning author of the novels \u003ci\u003eQueenpin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Song Is You\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDie a Little\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBury Me Deep\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDare Me\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Fever\u003c\/i\u003e, which was chosen as one of the Best Books of the Summer by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, and one of the Best Books of the Year by Amazon, NPR, the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Her writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Believer\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. 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