Her stories : daytime soap opera & US television history / Elana Levine.
"HER STORIES provides an in-depth history of the production and reception of the daytime soap opera in the U.S. It offers a detailed view of the genre's life span-from its move from radio to television in the middle of the 20th century to its supposed demise (but continued afterlife) in th...
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Duke University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Console-ing passions.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Serials in Transition: From Radio to Television
- 2. Daytime Therapy: Help and Healing in the Postwar Soap
- 3. Building Network Power: The Broadcasting Business and the Craft of Soap Opera
- 4. Turning to Relevance: Social Issue Storytelling
- 5. Love in the Afternoon: The Fracturing Fantasies of the Soap Boom
- 6. Struggles for Survival: Stagnation and Innovation
- 7. Reckoning with the Past: Reimagining Characters and Stories
- 8. Can Her Stories Go On? Soap Opera in a Digital Age
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.