Re-Viewing Reception: Television, Gender, and Postmodern Culture

by Lynne Joyrich

Book Overview

"This is an ambitious analysis of television studies as a whole." --Library Journal Focusing on U.S. television of the 1980s--from Miami Vice, Moonlighting, and Pee-wee's Playhouse to Max Headroom--Lynne Joyrich explores how gender affects the reception of television. She traces how the medium has been chracterized as "feminine" and then turns to the television shows themselves and analyzes a range of genres and forms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025321078X
• ISBN13: 9780253210784
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"