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 the richness of this
often-slighted medium as a source of significance for cultural
criticism and delivers a compelling decade-defining analysis of our
most recent past.
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; 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 televison while seeing through television
in every sense of the word.
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