Pleasure, popularity and the soap opera

This thesis uses the concept of pleasure as it has been applied to cultural artefacts in order to give a description of various characteristics of the soap opera genre. The concept of pleasure is applied to soap opera narrative, characters, visual style and viewing attitudes. Three soap operas, The...

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Main Author: De Montigny, Michelle C. (Michelle Chantal)
Other Authors: Kaite, Berkeley (advisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 1992
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