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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wittebols, James H. Soap opera paradigm. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2004 (OCoLC)645919424 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James H Wittebols |
ISBN: | 0742520013 9780742520011 0742520021 9780742520028 074252003X 9780742520035 |
OCLC Number: | 54446382 |
Description: | viii, 231 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The Soap Opera Paradigm and the Television Industry -- The Evolution of the Television Industry -- The Soap Opera as Commodity Form -- The WWE: Machismo, Melodrama and Money -- Soap Opera Storytelling in News -- The Evolution of the ABC and CBS News Divisions -- TV News: The Show's the Thing -- Floods of Tears: Natural Disasters in the News -- All My Primaries: Political Campaigns and Television News -- Soap Opera: The Godzilla Genre -- Prime Time Storytelling -- Reality TV: 'This is Just Like a Soap' -- A Little Soap with Your Sports? |
Responsibility: | James H. Wittebols. |
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The Soap Opera Paradigm ranks among the most important works in media studies in a generation. It will be a defining work for the field. Wittebols has methodically documented and brilliantly analyzed major trends in commercial media content, linking them to media structures and assessing their disturbing implications. The Soap Opera Paradigm will be mandatory reading in my classes and will be an invaluable guide to me in my research. I give this book an unconditional recommendation. -- Robert W. McChesney, author, Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-First Century: Media, Politics, and the Struggle Wittebol's analysis is sound and well documented. Recommended. * CHOICE * The Soap Opera Paradigm shows precisely how media conglomeration has changed the forms and content of television's stories, whether fact or fiction. By grafting the assumptions and concerns of serial melodramas on to everything from the nightly news to episodic series in prime time, media conglomerates protect their bottom lines and build brand loyalty while championing a mindset that is overly simplified, highly emotional, and antidemocratic. Wittebols deftly integrates qualitative and quantitative methods with political economy and cultural studies to produce an insightful and engaging account of the serious problems created by deregulation, transindustrial conglomeration, and the melodramatization of television. -- Eileen R. Meehan, Louisiana State University Read more...


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- Television soap operas -- United States -- History and criticism.
- Television broadcasting of news -- United States.
- Téléromans -- États-Unis -- Histoire et critique.
- Télévision -- Émissions de nouvelles -- États-Unis.
- Television broadcasting of news.
- Television soap operas.
- United States.
- Fernsehprogramm
- Fernsehsender
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- Muttergesellschaft
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- Televisieprogramma's.
- Soapseries.
- Nieuwsprogramma's.
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