To be continued ... : soap operas around the world /

To be continued ... : soap operas around the world / edited by Robert C. Allen. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1995. - 1 online resource (ix, 398 pages) - Comedia. . - Comedia. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-387) and index.

Introduction / Robert C. Allen -- 1. Doubtless to be continued: A brief history of serial narrative / Roger Hagedorn -- 2. The role of soap opera in the development of feminist television scholarship / Charlotte Brunsdon -- 3. Social issues and realist soaps: A study of British soaps in the 1980s/1990s / Christine Geraghty -- 4. National and cultural identity in a Welsh-language soap opera / Alison Griffiths -- 5. Global Neighbours? / Stephen Crofts -- 6. The end of civilization as we knew it: Chances and the postrealist soap opera / Ien Ang and Jon Stratton -- 7. "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV": Characters, actors and acting in television soap opera / Jeremy G. Butler -- 8. Plotting Paternity: Looking for dad on the daytime soaps / Laura Stempel Mumford -- 9. "They killed off Marlena, but she's on another show now": Fantasy, reality, and pleasure in watching daytime soap operas / Louise Spence.

To Be Continued... explores the world's most popular form of television drama; the soap opera. From Denver to Delhi, Moscow to Manchester, audiences eagerly await the next episode of As the World Turns, The Rich Also Weep or Eastenders. But the popularity of soap operas in Britain and the US pales in comparison to the role that they play in media cultures in other parts of the world.To Be Continued... investigates both the cultural specificity of television soap operas and their reception in other cultures, covering soap production and soap.

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Soap operas--Social aspects.
Television soap operas--Social aspects.
Téléromans--Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies.
Television soap operas--Social aspects.
Soapopera
Aufsatzsammlung
Soapseries.


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