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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Soap Opera"”.
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Managing ourselves: young people, soap opera and technologies of self-government
This study examines two television soap operas and their consumption by a select group of teenagers. The soap operas in question, Neighbours and Home and Away, are produced in Australia and watched by large audiences in the UK. The study's broadest aim is to discover the nature of the relationship …
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The Psychological, Sociological, and Cultural Aspects of Professional Wrestling as Soap Opera.
… as a cultural medium, a form of theater/soap opera that provides psychological and sociological releases for its viewing audience. Research methodology includes participant-observation and content analysis. Findings suggest that professional wrestling provides various types of emotional …
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'Sterling Towers' : a soap opera for HIV awareness among the middle class in urban India
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Department of Telecommunications, 2005
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Extending and Refining an Expectancy-Value Theory of Media Gratifications: Two Studies in the Domain of Soap Opera Watching
… understanding of the reasons for exposure to soap operas remains "almost wholly in the realm of speculation and prejudice" (Cantor & Pingree, 1983, p.127).
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The impact of commercial global television on cultural change and identity formation. A study of Kurdish women and the Turkish soap opera 'Noor'.
… the role played by international television soap operas in identity formation and cultural change in relation to Kurdish women. Currently, Kurdish women live in a cultural context where traditional values often conflict with modern values when it comes to behaviour deemed appropriate for …
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Disability representation and portrayal in selected South African soap operas: a content analysis
… representation of persons with disabilities in soap operas, which has been studied minimally in South Africa. The goal of the study is to contribute towards an understanding of media representation of disability and its implications in South Africa, specifically through soap opera, by …
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Beyond This Point Are Monsters
… them. The project investigates and inhabits the soap opera <em>Dark Shadows</em> which aired daily on ABC from 1966 to 1971, and examines the manner in which the show defies its own genre conventions. I chose <em>Dark Shadows</em> as the foundational source for my text because it is a program …
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Teletexts :video literacy, television texture and serial drama
… the nature of television output as a text. - Soap opera is a popular term for a continuing drama serial that derives from the original association of the form with sponsorship by detergent companies. Film theory has provided the basis for much of our understanding of moving pictures, but the …
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The land of the telenovela in the age of social media : a study of the Brazilian prime-time soap opera and its online mediations from a social semiotic perspective for the purposes of informing communication theory and critical literacy practices
… so called novela das oito (lit. eight o’clock soap opera) or the prime-time Brazilian soap opera – also known as telenovela or simply novela – and different groups of viewers, for the purposes of informing communication theory, on the one hand, and critical literacy practices, on the other. The …
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Viewing postmodernist television : Moonlighting, Twin Peaks and The Simpsons
… Moonlighting, a detective series, Twin Peaks, a soap opera, and The Simpsons, an animated sitcom. Deploying parody, self-reflexivity and intertextuality, each has a complex relation with genre. Tony Bennett conceives of the latter as zones of sociality which constitute and are constituted by …
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As the world turns in a convergence culture
… declining ratings. This study outlines how the soap opera industry is and could be further adapting to the technological and social changes of a convergence culture to maintain and revitalize the genre's relevance for viewers and advertisers alike. CBS/Procter and Gamble Productions/TeleVest's …
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Between the candle and the star.
… and examining episodic and serial drama, soap opera, before considering issues of authorship and industry. It also explores representations of sf on television with series such as Star Trek; Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Dr Who, The X Files, Space: Above and …
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Bringing up baby: representations of lone motherhood in modern popular culture
… The texts studied were chosen from television soap opera and situation comedy (both of which deal mainly with family relationships and family situations) and popular, modern Hollywood films; three areas I considered to be central in helping me to gain an understanding of how the media construct …
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Queering in the Years: Gay Visibility in the Irish Media, 1974-2008
… affairs programming, documentary, chat shows, soap opera, television drama, film, magazines and broader print media. The methodology of this thesis is predominantly archival research, textual analysis and semi-structured interviews, a mixed-methods approach that uncovers the relationship …
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Imagining multilingual spaces through scripted 'codeswitching' in multilingual performance: a case study of '7de Laan'
… shape and influence the ways in which the soap reconstructs multilingual spaces and the identities that exist within these spaces through language and language practices. In the literature presented in this study I explore various theories and case studies that examine Afrikaans and its …
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Skinner stories : a community's perspective on the representation of coloured people today
… the representations of coloured women in the soap opera narratives and oppressive caricatures of African American women. It shows that these caricatures have been commercialized through the hip hop genre, questioning the potential for similar images of coloured identity to be normalized and …
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Transport and Trade in South Wales c.1100 - c.1400: A Study in Historical Geography
… Wales have in the past tended to focus on the 'soap opera' history of the elite. This thesis differs in that it examines two aspects that are occasionally touched upon, and which are inextricably linked, but rarely considered in detail: namely the system of transport and trade. Due to the …