Her stories: daytime soap opera & US television history

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 s...

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Beteilige Person: Levine, Elana 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Durham ; London Duke University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Console-ing passions: television and cultural power
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478009061
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478009061
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478009061
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478009061
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478009061
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478009061
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478009061
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478009061
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478009061
Zusammenfassung: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
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 386 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781478009061
DOI:10.1515/9781478009061