The Soap Opera Paradigm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soap Opera Paradigm write by James H. Wittebols. This book was released on 2004. The Soap Opera Paradigm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Soap Opera Paradigm is an engaging look at the pervasive use of daytime soap opera storytelling techniques in most television program genres, from prime time soap operas and reality shows to the nightly news, coverage of political campaigns, and sports programming. Drawing from a wealth of research, James Wittebols shows how programming techniques have changed over time and what roles media concentration and commercial influences have played in these changes. Visit our website for sample chapters!
The Political Economy and Content of Television
The Political Economy and Content of Television - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Economy and Content of Television write by James H. Wittebols. This book was released on 2000. The Political Economy and Content of Television available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper seeks to show how television has responded to the increasing pressure to focus on market interests by appropriating elements from soap operas which have proven so successful in fulfilling market values.
The Survival of Soap Opera
The Survival of Soap Opera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Survival of Soap Opera write by Sam Ford. This book was released on 2010-11-03. The Survival of Soap Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Soap Opera
The Soap Opera - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Soap Opera write by Muriel G. Cantor. This book was released on 1983-06. The Soap Opera available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive survey of the history, the means of production, the content and the impact on audiences of soap operas. A sociologist and a specialist in women's studies combine to review the content of soap operas, and the way in which they are produced. How have the themes of soap operas changed with social convention? How do these massively popular serials aimed at a female audience portray women at work and at home? The impact of soap opera on its audience, the different varieties of soap operas, and the differences in structure, content, and commercial purpose between soap operas and prime time television are also discussed. `Cantor and Pingree have performed an important service by bringing together and analyzing a va
To Be Continued...
To Be Continued... - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To Be Continued... write by Robert C. Allen. This book was released on 2002-01-04. To Be Continued... available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 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.
