Her Stories - Daytime Soap Opera and Us Television History

From The Guiding Light to Passions, Elana Levine traces the history of daytime television soap operas as an innovative and highly gendered mass cultural form.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
Part I. The New TV Soap: Late 1940s to Early 1960s
1. Serials in Transition: From Radio to Television  19
2. Daytime Therapy: Help and Healing in the Postwar Soap  44
Part II. The Classic Network Era: Mid-1960s to Late 1980s
3. Building Network Power: The Broadcasting Business and the Craft of Soap Opera  73
4. Turning to Relevance: Social Issue Storytelling  106
5. Love in the Afternoon: The Fracturing Fantasies of the Soap Boom  153
Part III. A Post-Network Age: Late 1980s to 2010s
6. Struggles for Survival: Stagnation and Innovation 199
7. Reckoning with the Past: Reimagining Characters and Stories  236
8. Can Her Stories Go On? Soap Opera in a Digital Age  280
Notes  299
Bibliography  357
Index  369

About the author

Elana Levine

Summary

From The Guiding Light to Passions, Elana Levine traces the history of daytime television soap operas as an innovative and highly gendered mass cultural form.

Product details

• Authors: Elana Levine
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781478007661
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0766-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Console-ing Passions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Medienwissenschaften, Fernsehen, TV, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism