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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Feuer, Jane. Seeing through the eighties. Durham : Duke University Press, 1995 (OCoLC)604730213 Online version: Feuer, Jane. Seeing through the eighties. Durham : Duke University Press, 1995 (OCoLC)607854050 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jane Feuer |
| ISBN: | 0822316757 9780822316756 0822316870 9780822316879 |
| OCLC Number: | 32203273 |
| Description: | x, 168 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Console-ing passions. |
| Responsibility: | Jane Feuer. |
Abstract:
With a cast of characters including Michael, Hope, Elliot, Nancy, Melissa, and Gary; Alexis, Krystle, Blake, and all the other Carringtons; not to mention Maddie and David and even Crockett and Tubbs, Feuer smoothly blends close readings of well-known programs and analysis of television's commercial apparatus with a thorough-going theoretical perspective engaged with the work of Baudrillard, Fiske, and others. Her comparative look at Yuppie TV, Prime Time Soaps, and made-for-TV movie Trauma Dramas reveals the contradictions and tensions at work in much prime-time programming and in the frustrations of the American popular consciousness. Seeing Through the Eighties also addresses the increased commodification of both the producers and consumers of television as a result of technological innovations and the introduction of new marketing techniques.
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.
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- Television and politics -- United States.
- Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Television viewers -- United States -- Psychology.
- Télévision et politique -- États-Unis.
- Télévision -- Aspect social -- États-Unis.
- Téléspectateurs -- États-Unis -- Psychologie.
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- Fernsehen.
- Politik.
- USA.
