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Description
This text critically examines 1980s American television in the context of the prevailing conservative ideological climate and demonstrates the richness of this often-slighted medium as a source of significance for cultural criticism. Seeing Through the Eighties addresses the increased commodification of both the producers and consumers of TV as a result of technological innovations and the introduction of new marketing techniques. Claiming a close relationship between TV and the cultures that create and view it, Jane Feuer sees the eighties through TV while seeing through TV in every sense of the word.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
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
References
Index
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
References
Index
Product details
| Published | 01 Jun 1996 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 182 |
| ISBN | 9780851705989 |
| Imprint | British Film Institute |
| Illustrations | illustrated |
| Dimensions | Not specified |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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