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

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 p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Allen, Robert Clyde, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Colección:Comedia.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.