Category: Soap Opera
CfP: Journal of Popular Television dossier “Histories and New Directions: Soap Opera/Serial Narrative Research”. Deadline: Jan 31, 2018.
With the invention of radio, the stories that we heard came to us through the airwaves. In the...
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BFI Media Conference 2017, 29-30 June, BFI Southbank, London, UK
The BFI Media Conference is a unique event for teachers of film and media at 16+ and in HE,...
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No Way to Treat a Lady: The Decline and Fall of Soap Opera by Martha Nochimson
About two years ago, at a dinner party, with my husband to my left, I was surprised when I turned...
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The CW, Legitimate Television, and Gendering by Bärbel Göbel-Stolz
“The US network The CW celebrates its ten-year anniversary this year.” That is the opening...
Read MoreBACK IN COLOMBIA, BACK TO LATIN AMERICAN TELEVISION by Toby Miller
I’m in Colombia, doing some research on a plaque unveiled by Prince Charles in Cartagena two years ago that briefly commemorated a British fleet trying to starve the inhabitants into submission and make the United Kingdom an...
Read MoreEVERYBODY NEEDS GOOD NEIGHBOURS by Susan Berridge
Liz Giuffre’s earlier blog ‘From Ramsay Street, With Love’ starts with an apology and ends with an assurance that Australians know that long-running soap Neighbours is ‘a bit embarrassing and a bit backward’. As a...
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EASTENDERS: THE TRIANGLES OF ALBERT SQUARE by Jonathan Bignell
The first episode of EastEnders was broadcast on BBC1 on 19 February 1985. Created by Tony Holland...
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