Elana Levine

Her Stories

Daytime Soap Opera and Us Television History

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Produktbeschreibung

From The Guiding Light to Passions, Elana Levine traces the history of daytime television soap operas as an innovative and highly gendered mass cultural form.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781478007661
• ISBN-10: 1478007664
• Artikelnr.: 56789354

Autorenporträt

Elana Levine

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
Part I. The New TV Soap: Late 1940s to Early 1960s
1. Serials in Transition: From Radio to Television  19
2. Daytime Therapy: Help and Healing in the Postwar Soap  44
Part II. The Classic Network Era: Mid-1960s to Late 1980s
3. Building Network Power: The Broadcasting Business and the Craft of Soap
Opera  73
4. Turning to Relevance: Social Issue Storytelling  106
5. Love in the Afternoon: The Fracturing Fantasies of the Soap Boom  153
Part III. A Post-Network Age: Late 1980s to 2010s
6. Struggles for Survival: Stagnation and Innovation 199
7. Reckoning with the Past: Reimagining Characters and Stories  236
8. Can Her Stories Go On? Soap Opera in a Digital Age  280
Notes  299
Bibliography  357
Index  369