CONTRIBUTOR:

Gary Edgerton

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor and Dean

DEPARTMENT:

College of Communication

INSTITUTION:

Butler University

BIOGRAPHY:

Gary R. Edgerton is Professor of Creative Media and Entertainment at Butler University. He has published twelve books—including Mad Men: Dream Come True TV (I.B. Tauris, 2011)—and more than ninety essays on a variety of television, film and culture topics in a wide assortment of books, scholarly journals, and encyclopedias. Moreover, he has delivered a dozen keynote addresses and more than one hundred scholarly paper presentations at various international, national, and regional conferences. Dr. Edgerton also coedits the Journal of Popular Film and Television, is associate editor of the Journal of American Culture, and an editorial board member of five other academic journals.