A Man Is Whatever Room He’s In

Pete Campbell and The Masculine Domesticity in Mad Men

Authors

  • Milagros Villar Universidad de Buenos Aires

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24215/24691488e104

Keywords:

Classic Cinema, Gender, Affects, Architecture

Abstract

This work will try to analyze the character of Pete Campbell in Mad Men as a thresholdcharacter to think about the classic categories in the post-war masculinity. Narratively, spatially and visually the series build him in tension regarding the classic ways of inhabiting the public and the private for masculine characters. When problematizing the notion of domestic masculine space, we will work on the descriptions of the forms and architectonic materialities through which the character transits as potentiators or inhabilitators of affective potencies or expressions of sensibility. The display of antique architectures which dialogue with modern and functional forms, produces spatiotemporal thresholds where history, architecture and cinema enable new ways of looking at gender/genre.

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Published

2023-12-21

How to Cite

Villar, M. . (2023). A Man Is Whatever Room He’s In: Pete Campbell and The Masculine Domesticity in Mad Men. Arte E Investigación, (24), e104. https://doi.org/10.24215/24691488e104

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No. 24 (2023): Arte e Investigación 24

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