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Das Büro und seine Kreativabteilung Eine Führung durch die Räume der Fernsehserie »Mad Men«

Open Access
|Jul 2025

Abstract

Based on the floor plan of the fictional New York advertising agency »Sterling Cooper«, the article deals with the fundamental conflicts of the television series »Mad Men«. The focus is on the copywriters who work on the image of the product in order to give it a story in the cycle of supply and demand. Office space and the experiences of office workers are inextricably linked in the creative process. The office, which as a place of orderly processes even seeks to generate the irrational, the creative idea, in a calculated way, becomes a hub of mystery and desire, which prove to be the actual motors of the series’ plot.

Language: English
Page range: 256 - 271
Published on: Jul 9, 2025
Published by: University of Vienna
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 times per year

© 2025 Kira Kaufmann, published by University of Vienna
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.