The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era - Hardcover

 
9781604737165: The Survival of Soap Opera: Transformations for a New Media Era
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ISBN 10: 1604737166 ISBN 13: 9781604737165
Verlag: University Press of Mississippi, 2010

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The soap opera, one of U.S. television's longest-running and most influential formats, is on the brink. Declining ratings have been attributed to an increasing number of women working outside the home and to an intensifying competition for viewers' attention from cable and the Internet. Yet, soaps' influence has expanded, with serial narratives becoming commonplace on most prime time TV programs. The Survival of Soap Opera investigates the causes of their dwindling popularity, describes their impact on TV and new media culture, and gleans lessons from their complex history for twenty-first-century media industries.

The book contains contributions from established soap scholars such as Robert C. Allen, Louise Spence, Nancy Baym, and Horace Newcomb, along with essays and interviews by emerging scholars, fans and Web site moderators, and soap opera producers, writers, and actors from ABC's General Hospital, CBS's The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, and other shows. This diverse group of voices seeks to intervene in the discussion about the fate of soap operas at a critical juncture, and speaks to longtime soap viewers, television studies scholars, and media professionals alike.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sam Ford, Bowling Green, Kentucky, is a research affiliate with Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Convergence Culture Consortium and Director of Customer Insights for Peppercom Strategic Communications. |Abigail De Kosnik, San Francisco, California, is an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Berkeley Center for New Media and the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. |C. Lee Harrington, Oxford, Ohio, is professor of sociology and a Women's Studies Program Affiliate at Miami University. She has been conducting research on the daytime industry and soap fans since the late 1980s and is author of many published academic works on soaps, including Soap Fans with Denise D. Bielby.

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How the daytime drama format reaches or loses its audience in the Internet age

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How the daytime drama format reaches or loses its audience in the Internet age

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Verlag
University Press of Mississippi
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1604737166
ISBN 13 
9781604737165
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
356
Herausgeber
Ford Sam, De Kosnik Abigail, Harrington C. Lee
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