Teaching TV Soaps (Teaching Film and Media Studies)

by VivienneClark (Editor), Louise Alexander (Author), Alison Cousens (Author)

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  Spiral-bound
  2004

  $4.20

  As the most popular and enduring TV genre worldwide, soap opera is an essential element of any media studies course. The topics covered include: the history of the soap opera genre, narrative conventions, ideas of realism, TV production contexts, approaches to soap opera audiences, links with other media and issues of ideology.