Content tagged "1980s"

Posted by M C Elish S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2010
Topics: 1980s, advertising, domesticity, personal computers, technology

The Evolution of Intimacy: Advertising Personal Computers in the 1980s

Based an analysis of over 500 magazine advertisements, this thesis examines how they positioned the personal computer as a domestic machine.
Posted by Robin Hauck S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2003
Topics: 1980s, American Beauty, Baby Boom, conservatism, family, Fatal Attraction, film, High Tide, Kramer vs. Kramer, Look Who's Talking, motherhood, Mr. Mom, Ordinary People, Parenthood, Terms of Endearment, textual analysis, The Good Mother, Three Men and a Baby

Popcorn Moms: Decoding Representations of Motherhood in American Popular Cinema, 1979-1989

“Popcorn Moms” is a socio-historical analysis of the ways American commercial cinema represented motherhood in the 1980s.