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.
Her Stories
Her Stories - 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 Her Stories write by Elana Levine. This book was released on 2020-02-25. Her Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Fans
Soap Fans - 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 Soap Fans write by Carine Harrington. This book was released on 2010-06-10. Soap Fans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A dispute of the simplistic illusion of soap fans as bored housewives or losers.
The Soap Opera Paradigm
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!
I'm Just Sayin'!
I'm Just Sayin'! - 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 I'm Just Sayin'! write by Kim Zimmer. This book was released on 2011-08-02. I'm Just Sayin'! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the notorious Reva Shayne on the daytime television drama Guiding Light, Kim Zimmer portrayed a vixen, a manic-depressive, an Amish woman, a time traveler, a Civil War belle, a talk show host, a cancer survivor, a loving mother, and a devoted wife. In her more than two decades on the show, she earned eleven Daytime Emmy nominations and four wins, not to mention a legion of loving fans. Now, in this heartfelt memoir, Zimmer delves into her experiences as a daytime diva. Packed with on- and off-set photographs and behind-the-scenes information, blatantly honest and wildly indiscreet, I’m Just Sayin’ tells all in an insightful journey through the parallel lives of Reva Shayne and Kim Zimmer—and the true stories behind the longest-running drama in television and radio history.
