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The daytime serials of television, 1946-1960 / Jim Cox.

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"This history of 'golden age' soaps begins with an overview of earlier serialized entertainments that set the stage for the televised daytime soap. An analysis of early TV soap stars, personnel and production follows. Appendices include chronological and alphabetical directories of pe...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Cox, Jim, 1939-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, ℗♭2006.
Subjects:
Television soap operas > United States > History and criticism.
Television soap operas.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Antecedents of the daytime serial
  • 2. Bubbles in the air
  • 3. Primitive stages
  • 4. In need of a fix
  • 5. Alpha and omega
  • 6. The maven of matinee
  • 7. Reincarnations
  • 8. Search for tomorrow
  • 9. Love of life
  • 10. The guiding light
  • 11. The secret storm
  • 12. As the world turns
  • 13. The edge of night
  • Epilogue : the land of beginning again
  • App. A. Daytime serials chronology
  • App. B. Daytime serials superlatives
  • App. C. Daytime serials directory.

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