Soap Opera, 1st Edition
$34.39
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
18 December 2002
Summary
The soap opera is a major form of media art and popular culture. Revered and reviled by fans and critics, its history spans and reflects social change and plays a vital role in the development of broadcasting. This book traces the genre from its beginnings on American radio in the 1930s to the international television genre it has become today. While concentrating on British soap operas, it also discusses the influence of their American and Australian counterparts.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745626550 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0745626556 |
| Author: | Dorothy Hobson |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 18 December 2002 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 152mm x 231mm |
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Critics Review
“This book achieves what media studies researchers have spent two decades striving for: a comprehensive study for a television text plus on in-depth account of the audience’s relation to the text, solidly grounded in empirical evidence, and in the context of the economics of broadcasting. It is the best book I’ve ever read about soap opera, and one of the best I’ve ever read about television.”
Ellen Seiter, University of California, San Diego
“Dorothy Hobson understands soap opera’s power to involve TV viewers better than any-one alive. This remarkable study is of compelling interest to the soap addict, to the general reader and to the student of mass media’s money magic. A rewarding read.”
Jeremy Isaacs, Founding Chief Executive, Channel 4
“The art of TV soap opera has finally come of age and is recognized by audience and critics as quality drama. This book is the definitive to the genre, and will prove indis-pensable to fans and academics alike.”
Mal Young, BBC Controller, Drama Series
Dorothy Hobson
Dorothy Hobson is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhamptonand the author of Crossroads: The Drama of a Soap Opera, Methuen (1982). For the last 3 years she has been Chair of the Royal Television Society Midland Centre. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Television Society in 1999.
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