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The Survival of Soap Opera

Author : Sam Ford
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604737172
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book The Survival of Soap Opera written by Sam Ford and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The soap opera, one of U.S. television’s longest-running and most influential formats, is on the brink. Declining ratings have been attributed to an increasing number of women working outside the home and to an intensifying competition for viewers’ attention from cable and the Internet. Yet, soaps’ influence has expanded, with serial narratives becoming commonplace on most prime time TV programs. The Survival of Soap Opera investigates the causes of their dwindling popularity, describes their impact on TV and new media culture, and gleans lessons from their complex history for twenty-first-century media industries. The book contains contributions from established soap scholars such as Robert C. Allen, Louise Spence, Nancy Baym, and Horace Newcomb, along with essays and interviews by emerging scholars, fans and Web site moderators, and soap opera producers, writers, and actors from ABC’s General Hospital, CBS’s The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, and other shows. This diverse group of voices seeks to intervene in the discussion about the fate of soap operas at a critical juncture, and speaks to longtime soap viewers, television studies scholars, and media professionals alike.

Her Stories

Author : Elana Levine
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9781478008019
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Her Stories written by Elana Levine and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an economic, creative, technological, social, and cultural institution. In Her Stories, Elana Levine draws on archival research and her experience as a longtime soap fan to provide an in-depth history of the daytime television soap opera as a uniquely gendered cultural form and a central force in the economic and social influence of network television. Closely observing the production, promotion, reception, and narrative strategies of the soaps, Levine examines two intersecting developments: the role soap operas have played in shaping cultural understandings of gender and the rise and fall of broadcast network television as a culture industry. In so doing, she foregrounds how soap operas have revealed changing conceptions of gender and femininity as imagined by and reflected on the television screen.

Soap Opera

Author : Alecia Swasy
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307824225
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Soap Opera written by Alecia Swasy and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the maker of Ivory soap, Tide detergent, and Crest toothpaste, Procter & Gamble is a household name. It is America’s thirteenth largest company, lauded by business schools as a model for success. But behind P&G’s wholesome image is a control-obsessed company so paranoid that Wall Street analysts, employees, and the chairman himself refer to it as “the Kremlin.” The company demands conformity and unquestioning loyalty from its employees, who work in a strict and oppressive environment. P&G’s wealth and power ensures it gets what it wants, from tax breaks to the eager services of Washington lobbyists. In this explosive exposé, Wall Street Journal reporter Alecia Swasy—who covered P&G for three years—tells the full chilling story of life within the P&G behemoth. Drawn from interviews with over 300 former and current P&G employees (including CEO Ed Artzt), visits to P&G operations in five countries, and thousands of court and company documents, Soap Opera reveals the dirty tricks and draconian mind-set of the company with the “99 44/100% pure” façade. Included here is the real story behind P&G’s Rely brand tampons and their link to women’s deaths from toxic shock syndrome—and how P&G tried to suppress that evidence. Swasy takes us to Taylor County, Florida, where residents drink bottled water because P&G’s influence allowed the company to flood the local river with dioxin-laden toxic waste from its paper mill. Among these and dozens of other examples of the company’s cutthroat nature is Swasy’s own story of P&G’s unethical seizure of Cincinnati phone records in an effort to track down her sources. Wonderfully readable and impeccably researched, Soap Opera is a sobering look at the price of success in America.

Soap Opera History

Author : Mary Ann Copeland
Publisher : Bdd Promotional Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9780792454519
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Soap Opera History written by Mary Ann Copeland and published by Bdd Promotional Book Company. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the slow-moving world of soap operas includes reviews of major storylines, histories of how each show began, cast lists, and other information on both daytime and evening serials

Soap Opera

Author : Dorothy Hobson
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745626543
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Soap Opera written by Dorothy Hobson and published by Polity. This book was released on 2003-01-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The soap opera is a major form of media art and popular culture. Revered and reviled by fans and critics, its history spans and reflects social change and plays a vital role in the development of broadcasting. This book traces the genre from its beginnings on American radio in the 1930s to the international television genre it has become today. While concentrating on British soap operas, it also discusses the influence of their American and Australian counterparts. This is the first book to consider the soap opera within the economy of broadcasting; it includes a chapter based on interviews with leading broadcasting executives who give their analysis of the importance of the soap opera to their industry. The perspective of television producers as well as the views of audiences are also taken into account. Accessibly written, Soap Opera links the genre to both its media and its literary heritage, and argues that soap operas cross international boundaries through the universal appeal of their characters and their stories. It will be of particular interest to students of media and cultural studies, literary studies, sociology and television production courses, as well as to professionals in the television industry.

Speaking of Soap Operas

Author : Robert Clyde Allen
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807841297
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Speaking of Soap Operas written by Robert Clyde Allen and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "Ma Perkins" and "One Man's Family" in the 1930s to "All My Children" in the 1980s, the soap opera has capture the imagination of millions of American men and women of all ages. In Speaking of Soap Operas, Robert Allen undertakes a reexaminati

Worlds Without End

Author : Museum of Television and Radio (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Worlds Without End written by Museum of Television and Radio (New York, N.Y.) and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1997 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a special feature for this book, The Museum of Television & Radio conducted interviews with leading writers, producers, actors, and directors of soap operas. Dozens of revealing quotes from these interviews appear throughout the book - personal and professional comments by men and women who make their living in the field.

Soap Opera Confidential

Author : Elizabeth Searle
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476665281
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Soap Opera Confidential written by Elizabeth Searle and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soap operas have captured loyal, often lifelong viewers since the first American daytime serial debuted in 1949. In this collection of 29 new and five classic essays and recollections, authors and soap opera insiders delve into the passion for television melodrama that compels viewers to "tune in tomorrow." The contributors include iconic soap star Thorsten Kaye, journalist Leigh Montville, authors Elinor Lipman and Ann Hood, and editors of Soaps in Depth magazine. They explore the soap phenomenon from a range of perspectives and consider the appeal of a venerable genre in which, as novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard observes, "everyone's life was more depressing than mine."

The Soap Opera Puzzle Book

Author : Gerard J. Waggett
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780061011566
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book The Soap Opera Puzzle Book written by Gerard J. Waggett and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1997-05-22 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're a soap fan and love to do puzzles, this book is for you. Created by soap expert Gerard J. Waggett, author of the popular "Soap Opera Book of Lists", this fun- and trivia-filled puzzle book will put your knowledge of soaps to the ultimate test. But you don't have to be a puzzle expert--as long as you love the soaps, and you'll have hours of fun teasing out the answers from all the shows you've ever watched.

The Soap Opera Evolution

Author : Marilyn J. Matelski
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786472819
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book The Soap Opera Evolution written by Marilyn J. Matelski and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first daytime dramas began as early as 1930, with Painted Dreams. Programmers soon discovered that housewives often controlled the purse strings, and soaps become an advertiser's gold mine. They now generate more than $900 million in network revenues annually. Around 50 million people (reportedly including congressmen and rock stars as well as two-thirds of all American television-watching women) tune in each weekday afternoon for a dosage of love, loss and libido via "the soaps." This scholarly study examines the soap phenomenon from a sociological point of view. Included in the analysis is classic research by Rudolf Arnheim, Herta Hartzog and Helen Kaufman as well as contemporary studies and previously unpublished research. The evolution of popular plotlines and characters, as assessment of reality in today's plots, which people watch soaps and why, specific plotlines for the 13 soaps presently aired, 40+ family trees illustrating program changes, the future of soaps--all are covered.

Phantom of the Soap Opera

Author : Judi Miller
Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780440200581
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Phantom of the Soap Opera written by Judi Miller and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One by one, a ruthless killer stalks the actresses of the soap opera, All My Days, delivering the same violent end to them all. And not even street-smart police detective Theresa Morrison suspects his real identity until he comes after her.

Watching Daytime Soap Operas

Author : Louise Spence
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819567659
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Watching Daytime Soap Operas written by Louise Spence and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging, in-depth look at the myriad pleasures of the soap opera fan.

Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva

Author : Victoria Rowell
Publisher : Pocket Star
ISBN 13 : 9781451647389
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva written by Victoria Rowell and published by Pocket Star. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calysta Jeffries is the hottest black actress in daytime and the diva of the soap opera world, known for her role as Ruby Stargazer on television’s most popular soap opera, "The Rich and the Ruthless." After fifteen years, three returns from the dead, two failed pregnancies, one alien abduction, and overcoming retrograde amnesia, Calysta still hasn’t managed to snag the biggest award in daytime drama: the Sudsy. Now is supposed to be her moment. But Calysta’s onscreen/offscreen rival Emmy Abernathy wins the award for the fourth time. The drama begins when journalist Mitch Morelli asks Calysta for a quote after the award show and her true feelings for her costar slip out. Ripped from the headlines of Soap Opera Digest and straight off of the television screen, Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva will give readers plenty to talk about as they try to guess where the real world ends and Rowell’s imagination begins.

The Soap Opera Encyclopedia

Author : Christopher Schemering
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soap Opera Encyclopedia written by Christopher Schemering and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Samantha

Author : Meryl Robin Becker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Samantha written by Meryl Robin Becker and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a soap opera storyline approach, this text contains reading passages that hold the adult learner's interest and provide ESL learners with vocabulary and idiom practice. The stimulating and intriguing storyline offers continuing topics for discussion on social, moral, and cross-cultural issues such as love, marriage, dating customs, and gender roles in all societies. Chapters contain prereading and comprehension questions, as well as exercises that reinforce the vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. The book's chapters have been sealed but perforated to prevent students from reading ahead.

Crossroads

Author : Dorothy Hobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Crossroads written by Dorothy Hobson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Crossroads', one of the most successful programmes on television, has attracted a huge and devoted audience of some 15 million regular viewers. Yet, like many soap operas, it is derided by the press and treated with distaste by other programme-makers. Indeed, despite its popularity, its very future currently hangs in the balance. While doing independent research on popular television in the ATV studios in 1981, Dorothy Hobson observed the storm that developed around the company's decision to dispense with Meg Mortimer, star of 'Crossroads'. The repercussions of that announcement were immense and highlighted the gulf between the broadcasting authorities and the progaramme's critics, and the 'Crossroads' production team and the audience. Through talking to the actors, the programme controller and the viewing public, she went on to explore the contradictions of why and how a soap opera is made and viewed, examining the appeal of 'Crossroads' and attempting to locate the programme as part of contemporary popular culture. The result is a revealing, controversial but also very absorbing analysis of a soap opera in crisis.

Soap Operas for Social Change

Author : Heidi Nariman
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soap Operas for Social Change written by Heidi Nariman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993-05-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, the Mexican network Televisa broadcast the first entertainment-education soap opera, which was written and produced by Miguel Sabido according to his own theory-based research formula. The soap opera, called Ven Conmigo (Come with Me), promoted a government-sponsored adult literacy program, and its commercial and social success prompted Televisa to produce, broadcast, and research the audience effects of five other Sabido-designed soaps. Development themes treated in these shows included family planning, women's rights, responsible parenthood, and adolescent sexual education. Each of the six entertainment-education soap operas was exported for broadcast in other Latin American nations and achieved high ratings consistent with the ratings of conventional soaps. Subsequent evaluation research indicated that these educational soaps did successfully increase viewers' awareness and acceptance of their respective messages. Nariman examines Sabido's model with particular attention given to communication and behavioral theories that constitute parts of the formula: the hierarchy of effects model by William McGuire, the social learning theory developed by Albert Bandura, the dramatic theory proposed by Eric Bentley, the two-step-flow theory of Paul F. Lazarsfeld, and opinion leadership as articulated by Lazarsfeld, Berelson, and Gaudet. Nariman details the historical, social, and political context within which Sabido's formula emerged in Mexico, and discusses the research and application of the research data in actual soap opera design and production. Nariman discusses results of these evaluations conducted in Latin America, then provides an overview of the diffusion of the Sabido formula to other countries and media in India, Kenya, Zaire, Pakistan, and other developing countries. Each chapter includes lively examples from Sabido's soap operas that are highlighted by sample dialogue, plots, and character profiles. The volume takes an important step towards breaking down the traditional concept of informational or educational campaigns as mutually exclusive from commercial mass media entertainment.