Soap opera and women's talk
Subtitle: the pleasure of resistance
By: Mary Ellen Brown.
Series: Communication and human values
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Soap operas -- United States -- History and criticism; Soap operas -- Great Britain -- History and criticism; Soap operas -- Australia -- History and criticism; Television and women -- United States; Television viewers -- United States; Feminism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-207) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments -- Introduction : questions of identity -- 1. The politics of pleasure -- 2. Saying the unsayable -- 3. Soap opera and hegemony -- 4. The spoken text -- 5. The boundaries of pleasure -- 6. Cultural capital and strategic knowledge -- 7. The power of laughter -- 8. Resistive readings -- 9. Conclusion : a never-ending story -- Appendix : methodology -- References -- Index -- About the author.