“Mad Men,” which concluded its award-winning eight-year run on Sunday, invited viewers to look anew at the 1960s.Rather than focus on the hippie left or the civil rights movement, as documentaries and feature films have done in the past, “Mad Men” focused on the corporate elite, sparking an appreciation for midcentury style if not exactly for midcentury substance. In “Mad Men,” the 1960s come off as transformative, a decade in which the radical left looks a bit foolish (those silly Greenwich Village ne’er do wells!), country club Republicans look increasing out of step, and the confidence of one era is fading into the uncertainty of another.The one theme that has overwhelmingly dominated the show has been the question of freedom. For eight years, Don Draper has explored how much freedom a person can have and still feel valuable, able to find fulfillment without encountering limitations. As a man forever finding new freedoms — from his childhood, his background, his wives — Don Draper still knows the intractability of being grounded. In the series’ most memorable moment, Don wins the Kodak account by using a freedom-creating technology — a rotary slide projector — to tell the story of a life, of a courtship, a marriage, parenthood. So moving is his tale that a colleague leaves the room in tears. The account is won.Continue Reading...
The Last Great “mad Men” Debate: Who Won The ’60s, The Hippies Or Ronald Reagan?
davedaley, Salon: Politics
Mon, 05/18/2015 - 10:25am
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