To be continued ... : soap operas around the world / edited by Robert C. Allen.

Contributor(s):

Allen, Robert Clyde, 1950-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: ComediaPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 398 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0203131851
9780203131855
0203131851
9781134837038
1134837038
9786610539383
6610539383

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: To be continued ...DDC classification:

302.23/45 20

LOC classification:

PN1992.8.S4 T6 1995eb

Other classification:

05.36

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Contents:

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.

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

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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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