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

About the Author

Jane Feuer teaches Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is the author of The Hollywood Musical (1993) and co-editor of MTM: "Quality Television" (BFI, 1984).

Reviews

Seeing Through the Eighties is a book by one of the best TV critics in the business. A work of real TV scholarship, it is also a treasure trove of information about programming in the eighties—a kind of critical companion to TV Guide for the decade.
*Jane Gaines, Duke University, editor of 'Classical Hollywood Narrative'*