Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 721 g
Reihe: Comedia
Soap Operas Around the World
Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 721 g
Reihe: Comedia
ISBN: 978-0-415-11007-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
To Be Continued. investigates both the cultural specificity of television soap operas and 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 serial narrative as a form, and the role of the soap opera in the development of feminist media criticism.
To Be Continued. presents the first scholarly examination of soap opera as global media phenomenon.
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- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Presse & Journalismus
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
- Geisteswissenschaften Design Grafikdesign, Kommunikationsdesign
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medienphilosophie, Medienethik, Medienrecht
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction 1 Doubtless to be continued: A brief history of serial narrative 2 The role of soap opera in the development of feminist television scholarship 3Social issues and realist soaps: A study of British soaps in the 1980s/1990s 4 National and cultural identity in a Welsh-language soap opera 5 Global Neighbours? 6 The end of civilization as we knew it: Chances and the post-realist soap opera 7 “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV”: Characters, actors and acting in television soap opera 8 Plotting Paternity: Looking for dad on the daytime soaps 9 “They killed off Marlena, but she’s on another show now”: Fantasy, reality, and pleasure in watching daytime soap operas 10 “There’s a queer in my soap!”: The homophobia/AIDS story-line of One Life to Live 11 The consumption of soap opera: The Young and the Restless and mass consumption in Trinidad 12 Not all “soaps” are created equal: Toward a cross-cultural criticism of television serials 13 Our welcomed guests: Telenovel as in Latin America 14 Memory and form in the Latin American soap opera 15 Montezuma’s revenge: Reading Los Ricos También Lloran in Russia 16 The melodrama of national identity in post-Tiananmen China 17 All in the (Raghu) family: A video epic in cultural context 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