Introduction: Television and the Novel -- 1. Television and Postmodernism -- 2. The Twilight Zone and American Society in the Long 1950s: Between the Modern and the Postmodern -- 3. The Prisoner: The Modern, the Postmodern, and French Poststructuralism in the 1960s -- 4. Strange Reaganism: Ludic Postmodernism as Cold War Allegory in Twin Peaks -- 5. It's the Libidinal Economy, Stupid: The X-Files and the Politics of Postmodern Desire -- Conclusion: Television, Capitalism, and Postmodernism
