To be continued-- : soap operas around the world / edited by Robert C. Allen
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| Subjects: | Television soap operas--Social aspects |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1995 |
| LC Classification: | P, PN |
| Table of Contents: | List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction / Robert C. Allen 1 1. Doubtless to be continued: A brief history of serial narrative / Roger Hagedorn 27 2. The role of soap opera in the development of feminist television scholarship / Charlotte Brunsdon 49 3. Social issues and realist soaps: A study of British soaps in the 1980s/1990s / Christine Geraghty 66 4. National and cultural identity in a Welsh-language soap opera / Alison Griffiths 81 5. Global Neighbours? / Stephen Crofts 98 6. The end of civilization as we knew it: Chances and the postrealist soap opera / Ien Ang, Jon Stratton 122 7. "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV": Characters, actors and acting in television soap opera / Jeremy G. Butler 145 8. Plotting Paternity: Looking for dad on the daytime soaps / Laura Stempel Mumford 164 9. "They killed off Marlena, but she's on another show now": Fantasy, reality, and pleasure in watching daytime soap operas / Louise Spence 182 10. "There's a queer in my soap!": The homophobia/AIDS story-line of One Life to Live / Joy V. Fuqua 199 11. The consumption of soap opera: The Young and the Restless and mass consumption in Trinidad / Daniel Miller 213 12. Not all "soaps" are created equal: Toward a cross-cultural criticism of television serials / Gabriele Kreutzner, Ellen Seiter 234 13. Our welcomed guests: Telenovelas in Latin America / Ana M. Lopez 256 14. Memory and form in the Latin American soap opera / Jesus Martin-Barbero 276 15. Montezuma's revenge: Reading Los Ricos Tambien Lloran in Russia / Kate Baldwin 285 16. The melodrama of national identity in post-Tiananmen China / Lisa Rofel 301 17. All in the (Raghu) family: A video epic in cultural context / Philip Lutgendorf 321 18. Sacred serials, devotional viewing, and domestic worship: A case-study in the interpretation of two TV versions of The Mahabharata in a Hindu family in west London / Marie Gillespie 354 Select Bibliography / Shari A. Novek 381 Index 388 |
| Additional Authors: | Allen, Robert Clyde, 1950- |
| Notes: | LCCN: 94011394 ISBN: 0415110068 (hbk.) ISBN: 0415110076 (pbk.) Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-387) and index |
| Physical Description: | ix, 398 p. ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 30319756 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0415110068 0415110076 |