"This is an ambitious analysis of television studies as a whole."nbsp;--Library Journal Focusing on U.S. television of the 1980s--from #157;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.