Soap Fans Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life

Name: Soap Fans Pursuing Pleasure and Making Meaning in Everyday Life
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ISBN: 9781566393300

ISBN-10: 1566393302

ISBN-13: 9781566393300

Edition: 1995

Authors: Carine Harrington, Denise D. Bielby

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Do soap opera fans deserve their reputation as lonely people, hopeless losers, or bored housewives? No, according to C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby. These authors-soap fans themselves-argue that soap fans are normal individuals who translate their soap watching into a broad range of public and private experience. People who cut across all categories of age, gender, race, ethnicity, income, education, and ideology incorporate a love of the soaps into their day-to-day leisure activities.Interviews with soap opera viewers, actors, writers, producers, directors, the daytime press, and fan club staff members reveal fascinating details about the inside world of fandom and the multitude of…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 8/9/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English