TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allen,Robert Clyde
TI  - To be continued ...: soap operas around the world 
T2  - Comedia
SN  - 0203131851
AV  - PN1992.8.S4 T6 1995eb
U1  - 302.23/45 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Soap operas
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Television soap operas
KW  - Téléromans
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Soapopera
KW  - gnd
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - Soapseries
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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