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Seeing Through the Eighties : Television and Reaganism /

Claiming a close relationship between television and the cultures that create and view it, Jane Feuer sees the eighties through television while seeing through television in every sense of the word.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feuer, Jane (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.