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标题：Turned Back: Mad Men as Intermedial Melodrama
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作者：Monique Rooney
期刊名称：Cultural Studies Review
电子版ISSN：1837-8692
出版年度：2012
卷号：18
期号：2
页码：169-87
语种：English
出版社：University of Technology, Sydney
摘要：This essay draws on definitions of gesture (Giorgio Agamben and Peter Brooks) and catachresis (Peter Brooks, Jacques Derrida) to examine the primacy of non-verbal signifiers as communicators of meaning in AMC’s Mad Men . Beginning with an analysis of Mad Men’s credit sequence, it draws attention to Mad Men ’s use of gesture and catachresis in relation to melodrama’s privileging of non-verbal and naturalistic expression and its persistence as an intermedial mode that has moved back and forth between various media (theatre, novel, cinema, television and now digital formats). It argues that Mad Men ’s melodramatic aesthetic is one that obliquely, and via a gestural and rhetorical ‘turned back’, communicates its relation to the past and the present.
关键词：melodrama;catachresis;Peter Brooks;Giorgio Agamben