To Be Continued... Soap Operas Around the World

Name: To Be Continued... Soap Operas Around the World
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ISBN: 9780415110075

ISBN-10: 0415110076

ISBN-13: 9780415110075

Edition: 1994

Authors: Robert C. Allen

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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 operasand their reception in other cultures, covering soap production and soap watching in the U.S., Asia, Europe, Australia and Latin America. The contributors consider the nature of soap as a media text, the history of the…

Book details

List price: $60.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/20/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Robert C. Allen is Smith Professor of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Speaking of Soap Operas and Horrible Prettines: Burlesque and American Culture and coauthor of Film History: Theory and Practice.



List of contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction




Doubtless to be continued: A brief history of serial narrative




The role of soap opera in the development of feminist television scholarship




Social issues and realist soaps: A study of British soaps in the 1980s/1990s




National and cultural identity in a Welsh-language soap opera




Global Neighbours?




The end of civilization as we knew it: Chances and the postrealist soap opera




"I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV": Characters, actors and acting in television soap opera




Plotting Paternity: Looking for dad on the daytime soaps




"They killed off Marlena, but she's on another show now": Fantasy, reality, and pleasure in watching daytime soap operas




"There's a queer in my soap!": The homophobia/AIDS story-line of One Life to Live




The consumption of soap opera: The Young and the Restless and mass consumption in Trinidad




Not all "soaps" are created equal: Toward a cross-cultural criticism of television serials




Our welcomed guests: Telenovelas in Latin America




Memory and form in the Latin American soap opera




Montezuma's revenge: Reading Los Ricos Tambien Lloran in Russia




The melodrama of national identity in post-Tiananmen China




All in the (Raghu) family: A video epic in cultural context




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



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