American Network Series of the 1980s

Abstract

This was a follow-up conference to the one-day symposium on American Network Series of the 1950s-1970s, organized by Claire Cornillon and Dennis Tredy in 2018. This series of conference was backed by GUEST, a research group on television series. Its aim is to stimulate research on American television series of the past, notably in order to better contextualize the contemporary series that receive more attention in television and media history. The conference on the 1980s was thus aimed to pur...