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Staying tuned : contemporary soap opera criticism
- Title
- Staying tuned : contemporary soap opera criticism / edited by Suzanne Frentz.
- Publication
- Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, ©1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PN1992.8.S4 S729 1992 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Frentz, Suzanne.
- Description
- 136 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Staying Tuned: Contemporary Soap Opera Criticism examines serials. Broadcast first in 1926 on radio and since 1956 on television Monday through Friday 52 weeks a year, soap operas provide a clear promise to continue for as long as mass mediated entertainment exists. Over the last sixty years, billions have happily suffered along with the gallant men and women of the afternoon." "A growing body of scholarly literature exists now to provide insights and suggest answers to the question of why so many continually return to the routine tragedies of daytime drama. Each of our chapters explores an aspect of soap opera which contributes to the endurance of the genre."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Exploring the effects of Love in the afternoon : does soap opera viewing create perceptions of a promiscuous world? / Rodney Andrew Carveth -- Investigating gender differences in college student soap opera viewing / Alison Alexander [and others] -- Everyday sex in everyday drama / Suzanne Frentz and Bonnie Ketter -- The nuclear family is alive and well : As the world turns / Gilah Rittenhouse -- The afternoons of our lives ; AIDS spreads to the soaps, sort of / Deborah D. Rogers -- Seventh and eighth graders "read" daytime soap operas in three West-Central Minnesota public schools / Mariam Darce Frenier.
- (Cont'd) "It's time for my story" : oral culture in the technological era : towards a methodology for soap opera audience study / Carol T. Williams -- The fate of the subject in the narrative without end / Jane Archer -- The siren call of the super couple : soap operas' destructive slide toward closure / Diana C. Reep -- Pine Valley prostitute : the representation of All my children's Donna Tyler / Scott R. Nelson -- Radio soap operas in global Africa : origins, applications, and implications / Vibert C. Cambridge -- Soaps & serials : the transformation of daytime drama into romance literature / Diane M. Calhoun-French.
- ISBN
- 0879725370
- 9780879725372
- 0879725389
- 9780879725389
- LCCN
- 91076365
- OCLC
- ocm25354091
- 25354091
- SCSB-1973291
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library