The survival of soap opera : transformations for a new media era /
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| Imprint: | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011. |
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| Description: | x, 344 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8282849 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Section 1. Challenges To The Future Of Soaps
- Introduction: The Crisis of Daytime Drama and What It Means for the Future of Television
- Perspective: Scholars Barbara Irwin and Mary Cassata on the State of U.S. Soap Operas
- Perspective: Historian William J. Reynolds on Memories of The Edge of Night
- Perspective: Writer Patrick Mulcahey on Changes in Soap Opera Writing Contracts
- Perspective: Actor Tristan Rogers on Changes in Soaps' Industry, Audiences, and Texts
- Daytime Budget Cuts
- Agnes Nixon and Soap Opera ôChemistry Testsö
- Giving Soaps a Good Scrub: ABC's Ugly Betty and the Ethnicity of Television Formats
- The Way We Were: The Institutional Logics of Professionals and Fans in the Soap Opera Industry
- Section 2. Capitalizing On History
- Perspective: Scholar Horace Newcomb on the Pleasures and Influence of Soaps
- Perspective: Scholar Robert C. Allen on Studying Soap Operas
- Growing Old Together: Following As the World Turns' Tom Hughes through the Years
- Perspective: Writer Kay Alden on What Makes Soaps Unique
- Perspective: Scholar Nancy Baym on Soaps after the O. J. Simpson Trial
- Of Soap Operas, Space Operas, and Television's Rocky Romance with the Feminine Form
- The Ironic and Convoluted Relationship between Daytime and Primetime Soap Operas
- Perspective: Scholar Louise Spence on Comparing the Soap Opera to Other Forms
- Perspective: Scholar Jason Mittell on the Ties between Daytime and Primetime Serials
- Preserving Soap History: What Will It Mean for the Future of Soaps?
- Did the 2007 Writers Strike Save Daytime's Highest-Rated Drama?
- Section 3. Experimenting With Production And Distribution
- ôThe Rhetoric of the Camera in Television Soap Operaö Revisited: The Case of General Hospital
- Its Not All Talk: Editing and Storytelling in As the World Turns
- Guiding Light: Relevance and Renewal in a Changing Genre
- The Evolution of the Production Process of Soap Operas Today
- From Daytime to Night Shift: Examining the ABC Daytime/SOAPnet Primetime Spin-of Experiment
- ôWhat the hell does TIIC mean?ö Online Content and the Struggle to Save the Soaps
- The Evolution of the Fan Video and the Influence of YouTube on the Creative Decision-Making Process for Fans
- Section 4. Learning From Diverse Audiences
- Soaps for Tomorrow: Media Fans Making Online Drama from Celebrity Gossip
- Soap Opera Critics and Criticism: Industry and Audience in an Era of Transformation
- Hanging on by a Common Thread
- Perspective: Fan Site Moderator QueenEve on Fan Activity around and against Soaps
- The Role of ôThe Audienceö in the Writing Process
- The ôMissing Yearsö: How Local Programming Ruptured Days of Our Lives in Australia
- As the World Turns' Luke and Noah and Fan Activism
- Constructing the Older Audience: Age and Aging in Soaps
- References
- Index
