RETRO: The Camera & 'Mad Men'

This is Jefferson Robbins's excellent video essay on the series which he originally posted on Film Freak Central. The video essay form is an exciting new way to analyse films and television. I've posted one or two from other authors on another blog, http://asanda2filmstudies.blogspot.com/

In the near future film and media students might well be expected to try their hands at making video essays themselves.

Film Freak's page on "Mad Men" with that excellent video essay on camerawork and representation

http://filmfreakcentral.blogspot.com/2009/08/in-retrograde.html

Mad Men: Image Is Everything - by Jessica Winter

Published on The Moving Image website

http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/image-is-everything-20080707

A video essay on camera technique and alienation in Mad Men

This subtle and clever video essay by Jefferson Robbins focuses on the cinematographer's camera techniques and how they established the visual grammar of Mad Men. Robbins also makes a couple of intertextual references to Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film Notorious as he establishes the director's influence over the second season's cinematographer, Christopher Manley.

RETRO: The Camera & 'Mad Men'
Uploaded by Jefferson_Robbins. - Full seasons and entire episodes online.

The source is Film Freak Central.