Seeing through the eighties : television and Reaganism / Jane Feuer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feuer, Jane.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Console-ing passions.

Console-ing passions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television and politics--United States.

Television and politics.

Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.

Television broadcasting.

Television viewers--United States--Psychology.

Television viewers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 1980s saw the rise of Ronald Reagan and the New Right in American politics, the popularity of programs such as thirtysomething and Dynasty on network television, and the increasingly widespread use of VCRs, cable TV, and remote control in American living rooms. In Seeing Through the Eighties, Jane Feuer critically examines this most aesthetically complex and politically significant period in the history of American television in the context of the prevailing conservative ideological climate. With wit, humor, and an undisguised appreciation of TV, she demonstrates

Contents:

Introduction: The Relationship between Politics and Television in the Reagan Era

1 The Made-for-TV "Trauma Drama": Neoconservative Nightmare or Radical Critique?

2 The Yuppie Spectator

3 Yuppie Envy and Yuppie Guilt: L.A. Law and thirtysomething

4 Art Discourse in 1980s Television: Modernism as Postmodernism

5 Serial Form, Melodrama, and Reaganite Ideology in Eighties TV

6 The Reception of Dynasty

Afterword: Overturning the Reagan Era

Appendix A: Trauma Dramas

Appendix B: Yuppie Programs.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-162) and index.

ISBN:

9786613062895

9781283062893

1283062895

9780822382690

0822382695

OCLC:

850215236