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Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination [Paperback]

Ien Ang (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0415045983 | ISBN-13: 978-0415045988 | Publication Date: December 27, 1985 | Edition: New edition

Dallas, one of the great internationally-screened soap operas, offers us first and foremost entertainment. But what is it about Dallas that makes that entertainment so successful, and how exactly is its entertainment constructed?

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Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Routledge; New edition edition (December 27, 1985)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415045983
ISBN-13: 978-0415045988
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