Dynasty Years Hollywood Television and Critical Media Studies

Name: Dynasty Years Hollywood Television and Critical Media Studies
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ISBN: 9780415085984

ISBN-10: 0415085985

ISBN-13: 9780415085984

Edition: 1995

Authors: Jostein Gripsrud

List price: $190.00

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In this groundbreaking and richly-sourced study, Jostein Gripsrud investigates the life and times ofDynasty, how it was made, how it came to international television screens and how it was received by its audiences. Through his discussion of this ultimate soap, Gripsrud offers a critique of many central positions in media studies, including notions of "audience resistance" and the "sovereign" audience and its "freedom" in meaning-making, arguing against uncritical celebrations of the soap-opera genre in much contemporary media criticism. From the operatic camp of Krystle and Alexis's fights or the Moldavian wedding massacre to its unprecedented gay sub-plot,The Dynasty Yearsfollows every…

Book details

List price: $190.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/29/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.14" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Jostein Gripsrudis professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen in Norway.



Preface


Introduction Signalling a Position



Hollywood Speaks



'the Cultural Debate of the Ages'



Dimensions of Domestic Reception



Reconsidering (Prime-Time) Soap Opera



The Not So 'Polysemic' Dynasty Text



The Social Meanings of Soap Opera and the Dynasty Event


Appendix


Bibliography


Index