Her Stories : Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Serials in Transition: From Radio to Television -- 2. Daytime Therapy: Help and Healing in the Postwar Soap -- 3. Building Network Power: The Broadcasting Business and the Craft of Soap Opera -- 4. Turning to Relevance: Social Issue St...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Serials in Transition: From Radio to Television -- 2. Daytime Therapy: Help and Healing in the Postwar Soap -- 3. Building Network Power: The Broadcasting Business and the Craft of Soap Opera -- 4. Turning to Relevance: Social Issue Storytelling -- 5. Love in the Afternoon: The Fracturing Fantasies of the Soap Boom -- 6. Struggles for Survival: Stagnation and Innovation -- 7. Reckoning with the Past: Reimagining Characters and Stories -- 8. Can Her Stories Go On? Soap Opera in a Digital Age -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung