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Soap Opera

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2655-0
Paperback
240 pages
December 2002, Polity
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Acknowledgements.

Preface: Why Soap Opera?.

Introduction: History and Theories.

Part I: The Soap Business.

1. Soap Opera and the Broadcasting Industry.

2. Elements of Production: Features of the Form.

Part II: The Content of Soap Operas.

3. Soap Stars: Actors and Icons.

4. Soap Opera and Everyday Life: Decades of Domestic Drama.

5. The Big Issues.

Part III: Soap Opera and its Audiences.

6. A Universal Form.

7. The Cultural History of Soap Opera and the Audience.

References.

Index

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