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Sep 10

salesonfilm:

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Mar 5

Hitchcock’s influence on Mad Men By Noma Bar

So sleek.

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Dec 27

Mad Men Party by Olly Moss

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Dec 3

Want.

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Nov 19

Nov 8

“She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She’s an astronaut.”

Bert Cooper on the late, great Ida Blankenship (from the episode The Beuatiful Girls). Trust an adman to come up with a soundbite-sharp obituary that sums up the entire twentieth century.

One of the many smart aspects of Mad Men is that rather than simply relishing in nostalgia and being a show entirely about fetishising the past, the writers acknowledge that for the characters it’s actually about the future. The momentum of social, cultural and scientific change in the sixties was astonishing. For the older members of SCDP like Bert and Mrs Blankenship, they aren’t living in a period drama, they’re living in science fiction.

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Nov 6

I was feeling down this week (as was everyone, it seems) and was exchanging e-mails with my dad, explaining my stress. In his last e-mail, he wrote, “As Joanie from Mad Men said, ‘This to shall pass’.” Yeah, we use TV references to communicate with each other. It works.

Oct 20

I just had to reblog something that came from petecampbellsbitchface

Oct 18

Fictional Floor Plan of the Day: Tadej Štrok bids farewell to season 4 of Mad Men with a detailed floor plan of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce created using online floor planning tool Floor Planner.

Re: last night’s episode of Mad Men: DAMMIT, DRAPER, YOU ALWAYS MAKE ME HATE YOU.