Television Soap Opera: "Incest, Bigamy, and Fatal Disease.".

Derry, Charles

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Publication Date: 1983

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Television Soap Opera: "Incest, Bigamy, and Fatal Disease."

Derry, Charles

Journal of the University Film and Video Association, v35 n1 p4-16 Win 1983

Shows how soap operas veer from reality in the stylized way they organize and present content. Divides the genre into its component parts--focusing on temporal structures, spatial structures, themes, plots, and character types. (PD)

Descriptors: Characterization, Content Analysis, Programing (Broadcast), Social Problems, Time Perspective

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Language: English

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