IV Hope & The Male Gaze & Reagan's TV 80s

[rich]

sorry to admit this but in my headbanging, black metal days in the 80s
I really wanted to shoot everyone on this TV show
but I did want to shoot every yuppie I saw so guess that's not saying much


On 9/21/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Seeing through the eighties: television and Reaganism By Jane Feuer
>
> htThirtysomething was influenced by the 1983 film, The Big Chill.[2]
> It reflected the angst felt by baby boomers and yuppies in the United
> States during the 1980s,[3] such as the changing expectations related
> to masculinity and femininity introduced during the era of second-wave
> feminism.[4] It also introduced "a new kind of hour-long drama, a
> series which focused on the domestic and professional lives of a group
> of young urban professionals, a socio-economic category of increasing
> interest to the television industry [...] its stylistic and story-line
> innovations led critics to respect it for being 'as close to the level
> of an art form as weekly television ever gets,' as the New York Times
> put it."[2] During its four year run, Thirtysomething "attracted a
> cult audience of viewers who strongly identified with one or more of
> its eight central characters, a circle of friends living in
> Philadelphia."[2] Even after its cancellation in 1991, it continued to
> influence television programming, "in everything from the look and
> sound of certain TV advertisements, to other series with feminine
> sensibilities and preoccupations with the transition from childhood to
> maturity (Sisters), to situation comedies about groups of friends who
> talk all the time (Seinfeld)."[2]
>
> Some were particularly critical of the show. Susan Faludi in her 1991
> bestseller, Backlash, argues that the show exhibited a disdainful
> attitude towards single, working, and feminist women (Melissa, Ellyn,
> and Susannah) while at the same time "exalting homemakers" (Hope and
> Nancy).[5]
>
> tp://www.powells.com/biblio/0822316757?&PID=33286
>