THE DRAPERS: MAD MEN AND THE PURSUIT OF THE WHITE AMERICAN DREAM ǀ Armando García

According to Larry Grossberg (2005), “The media have become an inseparable part of people’s lives, of their sense of who they are, and of their sense of history”. We use the media as a sort of looking glass through which our real life is filtered and served to us in easy to digest pieces. It turns the greyish tones of reality into blacks and whites. Media is a cultural creation and therefore reflects the social context of the times its content was produced. It is through a process called cultivation...