Though wildly popular, daytime soaps are arguably the most denigrated and parodied of any contemporary entertainment form. For this reason, even the most devoted soap opera fans are often reticent or even secretive about the shows they love. Watching Daytime Soap Operas is a meditation on the pleasures--and displeasures--of watching and talking about daytime soap operas. In this multidisciplinary study, Louise Spence talks to 25 women about their mostly solitary viewing practices and observes many Internet chat rooms. Over 20 years in the making, the book explores the varied critical and creative ways in which the women use soap operas in their lives. Spence draws on work in reception studies, and pays particular attention to the question of what it means to be a fan. She ultimately challenges the accepted belief that soap opera viewers are passive consumers of escapist fantasy. Her study expands the current literature of this largely misunderstood television genre while making an important contribution to the field of film-TV studies.
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"Watching Daytime Soap Operas combines the best of those books that look at the unique textual features of the soap opera form with those that study soap opera audiences. I believe scholars and students could read this book and receive a complete education in the soap opera. To date I find it the best single book on the topic--if I were to adopt a book for use in my courses, I would choose this one." (Jane Feuer, Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh )
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All My Children, General Hospital, Soap Opera Digest, One Life, Narrative Discourses, Days of Our Lives, Erica Kane, Ryan's Hope, Jack Abbott, The Guiding Light, New York City, Lifès Little Problems, Paul Williams, Genoa City, Irna Phillips, Mary Ellen Brown, Viki Buchanan, Roland Barthes, Tania Modleski, Awilda Valles, Power of Pleasure, Lee Meltz, Adam Chandler, Lonely Women, Another World Browse Sample Pages:
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