Mad men. Season one /

1960's New York City. In the glamorous and ego-driven world of advertising, everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what it seems. Reveals the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue's "Golden Age," where key players make an art of the sell w...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Mad men (Television program).
Corporate Authors:	Lions Gate Television (Firm), American Movie Classics Company, Lionsgate (Firm)
Other Authors:	Hamm, Jon, 1971-, Slattery, John, 1962-, Moss, Elisabeth, 1982-, Kartheiser, Vincent, 1979-, Siff, Maggie, 1978-, Staton, Aaron, Batt, Bryan, Jones, January, 1978-, Hendricks, Christina, 1975-, Gladis, Michael, Sommer, Rich, 1978-, Weiner, Matthew
Format:	Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Closed-captioned.
Published:	Santa Monica, CA : Lionsgate, [2008]
Edition:	[Blu-ray version.].
Subjects:	Advertising agencies > New York (State) > New York > Drama. Advertising > New York (State) > New York > Drama. Businessmen > New York (State) > New York > Drama. Man-woman relationships > New York (State) > New York > Drama. Madison Avenue (New York, N.Y.) Nineteen sixties > Drama. Television series. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Fiction television programs.

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Summary:	1960's New York City. In the glamorous and ego-driven world of advertising, everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what it seems. Reveals the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue's "Golden Age," where key players make an art of the sell while their private world gets sold. And no one plays the game better than Don Draper, the biggest ad man--and ladies' man--in the business.
Item Description:	Title from container. Created for television by Matthew Weiner. Originally broadcast on AMC July 19-Oct. 18, 2007. Special features: Disc 1: Audio commentaries ; Disc 2: Audio commentaries; "Advertising the American dream" featurette; "Scoring Mad men:" one-on-one discussion with composer David Carbonara; Mad men music sampler; "Pictures of elegance:" photo gallery with commentaries for the costume, hair and production designers ; Disc 3: Audio commentaries; "Establishing Mad men" featurette; exclusive season 2 preview. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	3 videodiscs (approximately 616 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Blu-ray disc; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby DTS HD 5.1 surround, 1080p High Definition. This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.
Audience:	Not rated.
Awards:	Golden Globes, 2007: Best Television Series-Drama - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series-Drama (Jon Hamm)