Jane Feuer (April 24, 1951 – January 8, 2021)https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/in_memoriam/memoriamJF_Jan2021.docx.pdf was a Professor of

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in the English and Communication Departments at the

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, United States. She was a film and

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scholar and one of the founders of Console-ing Passions, a biennial conference in

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and new media. She is the author of ''MTM: Quality Television'' (London: BFI Publishing, 1985), ''The Hollywood Musical'' (London: BFI Publishing, 1993), and ''Seeing Through the Eighties'' (Durham:

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, 1995). She was a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at the

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, Germany for the 2009-2010

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Selected works

*''The Hollywood Musical'' *''Seeing through the Eighties: Television and Reaganism''

References

Feuer's homepage at University Of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh faculty American mass media scholars 1951 births 2021 deaths {{US-academic-bio-stub