Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch ― Thinking About Television's Mad Men

Danielle M. Stern is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Christopher Newport University. She teaches courses in media and cultural studies, as well as critical and communication theory and research. Dr. Stern's work has been published in The Communication Review, Text and Performance Quarterly, and Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.Jimmie Manning is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University. He teaches courses in relationships, gender and sexuality, and qualitative research. He co-edited Case Studies of Communication about Sex (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), and has co-authored a collection on qualitative research in relationships (SAGE, forthcoming).Jennifer C. Dunn is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Dominican University. Her research and teaching focuses on rhetorical and media criticism, gender and media representation, and popular culture. Her work has been published in Communication Studies, Feminist Media Studies, and International Communication Gazette, among other journals and collections.