Mad Men has always been self-referential, but it has only become more so in this final half-season, as we approach what we know to be the end. As each character takes a final bow (some, like Rachel ...
Lilya Kaganovsky
Lilya Kaganovsky is Associate Professor of Slavic, Comparative Literature, and Media & Cinema Studies, and the Director of the Program in Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. Her publications include How the Soviet Man Was Unmade (2008); articles on gender, masculinity, and the body in Soviet and post-Soviet cinema; and two co-edited volumes: Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s, with Lauren M. E. Goodlad and Robert A. Rushing (2013), and Sound, Speech, Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema, with Masha Salazkina (2014). She can be reached at lilya@illinois.edu. 