Never Ending Stories: American Soap Operas the Cultural Production of Meaning, Crossroads: Studies in American Culture, Bd. 10
8 Angebote vergleichen

Preise20142015202120222023
Schnitt 17,57 16,17 46,04 51,31 50,05
Nachfrage
Bester Preis: 0,90 (vom 27.10.2014)
1
Borchers, Hans, Gabriele Kreutzner and Eva-Maria Warth, (eds.)

Never-ending stories: American soap operas the cultural production of meaning (1994)

Lieferung erfolgt aus/von: Mexiko ~EN PB NW

ISBN: 9783884760048 bzw. 3884760041, vermutlich in Englisch, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Taschenbuch, neu.

52,90 ($ 53,95)¹ + Versand: 24,02 ($ 24,50)¹ = 76,92 ($ 78,45)¹
unverbindlich
Lieferung aus: Mexiko, Versandkosten nach: DEU.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Arroyo Books.
Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1994. Book. New. Soft cover. Soap operas are a fairly recent, if by now a very popular, addition to German television programming. In the United States, on the other hand, the genre is almost as old as broadcasting itself. A similar contrast exists in the discourses about soap operas. While in this country writing about soap operas is as yet almost exclusively limited to newspapers, magazines and the tradepress, there has been a long history of American scholarship devoted to this important genre of U.S. network television. Once the exclusive domain of traditional mass communications research, critical interest in soap operas has recently branched out to include relevant work done in the context of film studies, literary criticism, women¿s studies and popular culture criticism. Never-Ending Stories takes its cue from the growing international significance of soap operas, a phenomenon due in large measure to the rapid expansion of commercial television. The book is not only an introduction to the major currents of pertinent Anglo-American scholarship, it also applies and explores new problematics and methodologies in the attempt to shed light on both the product and its wide popular appeal. It is divided into three parts: Production, Texts, Audiences. Approaching soap operas in historical, aesthetic and cultural terms, Never-Ending Stories provides a critical survey of the genre's changing forms from the 1930s to the present, addresses theoretical problems of studying soap operas as texts, and proposes a concept of viewers/readers as social subjects negotiating the meanings of soap operas on the basis of their specific cultural competences. Originating from a project conducted at the University of Tübingen¿s American Studies Department and funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung, Never-Ending Stories draws upon research done in the production studios and archives of the American television industry and upon extensive fieldwork including ethnographic interviews with soap opera viewers in the United States. I. Production Hans Borchers: Introduction Ellen E. Seiter: Women Writing Soap Opera: The Careers of Irna Phillips and Jane Crusinberry Gabriele Kreutzer: Inside Daytime: Manufacturing the Soap Opera World Hans Borchers: Notes and Reflections on the Production of Soap Operas: The Example of Santa Barbara II. Texts Eva Maria Warth: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner: U.S. Prime Time Serials in the 1980s: A Critical Retrospective Gabriele Kreutzner: From a Narrative Point of View: Network Television and Serial Fictions Eva-Maria Warth: Reading about Soap Operas: The Magazine Soap Opera Digest III. Audiences Gabriele Kreutzner: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: "I was thirteen and my best friend got hooked": An Interview with Two Soap Opera Viewers Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: Gendered Meanings: Soap Operas and Female Viewers Eva-Maria Warth: "And that's my time": Soap Operas and the Temporal Organization of Women¿s Everyday Lives Hans Borchers: Television and the Problem of Intercultural Understanding: Negotiating the Meanings of American Soap Operas Abroad.
2
Borchers, Hans, Gabriele Kreutzner and Eva-Maria Warth, (eds.)

Never-ending stories: American soap operas the cultural production of meaning (1994)

Lieferung erfolgt aus/von: Mexiko ~EN PB NW

ISBN: 9783884760048 bzw. 3884760041, vermutlich in Englisch, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Taschenbuch, neu.

52,46 ($ 53,95)¹ + Versand: 23,82 ($ 24,50)¹ = 76,28 ($ 78,45)¹
unverbindlich
Lieferung aus: Mexiko, Versandkosten nach: DEU.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Arroyo Books.
Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1994. Book. New. Soft cover. Soap operas are a fairly recent, if by now a very popular, addition to German television programming. In the United States, on the other hand, the genre is almost as old as broadcasting itself. A similar contrast exists in the discourses about soap operas. While in this country writing about soap operas is as yet almost exclusively limited to newspapers, magazines and the tradepress, there has been a long history of American scholarship devoted to this important genre of U.S. network television. Once the exclusive domain of traditional mass communications research, critical interest in soap operas has recently branched out to include relevant work done in the context of film studies, literary criticism, women¿s studies and popular culture criticism. Never-Ending Stories takes its cue from the growing international significance of soap operas, a phenomenon due in large measure to the rapid expansion of commercial television. The book is not only an introduction to the major currents of pertinent Anglo-American scholarship, it also applies and explores new problematics and methodologies in the attempt to shed light on both the product and its wide popular appeal. It is divided into three parts: Production, Texts, Audiences. Approaching soap operas in historical, aesthetic and cultural terms, Never-Ending Stories provides a critical survey of the genre's changing forms from the 1930s to the present, addresses theoretical problems of studying soap operas as texts, and proposes a concept of viewers/readers as social subjects negotiating the meanings of soap operas on the basis of their specific cultural competences. Originating from a project conducted at the University of Tübingen¿s American Studies Department and funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung, Never-Ending Stories draws upon research done in the production studios and archives of the American television industry and upon extensive fieldwork including ethnographic interviews with soap opera viewers in the United States. I. Production Hans Borchers: Introduction Ellen E. Seiter: Women Writing Soap Opera: The Careers of Irna Phillips and Jane Crusinberry Gabriele Kreutzer: Inside Daytime: Manufacturing the Soap Opera World Hans Borchers: Notes and Reflections on the Production of Soap Operas: The Example of Santa Barbara II. Texts Eva Maria Warth: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner: U.S. Prime Time Serials in the 1980s: A Critical Retrospective Gabriele Kreutzner: From a Narrative Point of View: Network Television and Serial Fictions Eva-Maria Warth: Reading about Soap Operas: The Magazine Soap Opera Digest III. Audiences Gabriele Kreutzner: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: "I was thirteen and my best friend got hooked": An Interview with Two Soap Opera Viewers Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: Gendered Meanings: Soap Operas and Female Viewers Eva-Maria Warth: "And that's my time": Soap Operas and the Temporal Organization of Women¿s Everyday Lives Hans Borchers: Television and the Problem of Intercultural Understanding: Negotiating the Meanings of American Soap Operas Abroad.
3
Borchers, Hans, Gabriele Kreutzner and Eva-Maria Warth, (eds.)

Never-ending stories: American soap operas the cultural production of meaning (1994)

Lieferung erfolgt aus/von: Mexiko ~EN PB NW

ISBN: 9783884760048 bzw. 3884760041, vermutlich in Englisch, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Taschenbuch, neu.

54,17 ($ 53,95)¹ + Versand: 24,60 ($ 24,50)¹ = 78,77 ($ 78,45)¹
unverbindlich
Lieferung aus: Mexiko, Versandkosten nach: DEU.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Arroyo Books.
Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1994. Book. New. Soft cover. Soap operas are a fairly recent, if by now a very popular, addition to German television programming. In the United States, on the other hand, the genre is almost as old as broadcasting itself. A similar contrast exists in the discourses about soap operas. While in this country writing about soap operas is as yet almost exclusively limited to newspapers, magazines and the tradepress, there has been a long history of American scholarship devoted to this important genre of U.S. network television. Once the exclusive domain of traditional mass communications research, critical interest in soap operas has recently branched out to include relevant work done in the context of film studies, literary criticism, women¿s studies and popular culture criticism. Never-Ending Stories takes its cue from the growing international significance of soap operas, a phenomenon due in large measure to the rapid expansion of commercial television. The book is not only an introduction to the major currents of pertinent Anglo-American scholarship, it also applies and explores new problematics and methodologies in the attempt to shed light on both the product and its wide popular appeal. It is divided into three parts: Production, Texts, Audiences. Approaching soap operas in historical, aesthetic and cultural terms, Never-Ending Stories provides a critical survey of the genre's changing forms from the 1930s to the present, addresses theoretical problems of studying soap operas as texts, and proposes a concept of viewers/readers as social subjects negotiating the meanings of soap operas on the basis of their specific cultural competences. Originating from a project conducted at the University of Tübingen¿s American Studies Department and funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung, Never-Ending Stories draws upon research done in the production studios and archives of the American television industry and upon extensive fieldwork including ethnographic interviews with soap opera viewers in the United States. I. Production Hans Borchers: Introduction Ellen E. Seiter: Women Writing Soap Opera: The Careers of Irna Phillips and Jane Crusinberry Gabriele Kreutzer: Inside Daytime: Manufacturing the Soap Opera World Hans Borchers: Notes and Reflections on the Production of Soap Operas: The Example of Santa Barbara II. Texts Eva Maria Warth: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner: U.S. Prime Time Serials in the 1980s: A Critical Retrospective Gabriele Kreutzner: From a Narrative Point of View: Network Television and Serial Fictions Eva-Maria Warth: Reading about Soap Operas: The Magazine Soap Opera Digest III. Audiences Gabriele Kreutzner: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: "I was thirteen and my best friend got hooked": An Interview with Two Soap Opera Viewers Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: Gendered Meanings: Soap Operas and Female Viewers Eva-Maria Warth: "And that's my time": Soap Operas and the Temporal Organization of Women¿s Everyday Lives Hans Borchers: Television and the Problem of Intercultural Understanding: Negotiating the Meanings of American Soap Operas Abroad.
4
Borchers, Hans, Gabriele Kreutzner and Eva-Maria Warth, (eds.)

Never-ending stories: American soap operas the cultural production of meaning (1994)

Lieferung erfolgt aus/von: Mexiko ~EN PB NW

ISBN: 9783884760048 bzw. 3884760041, vermutlich in Englisch, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Taschenbuch, neu.

55,70 ($ 53,95)¹ + Versand: 25,29 ($ 24,50)¹ = 80,99 ($ 78,45)¹
unverbindlich
Lieferung aus: Mexiko, Versandkosten nach: DEU.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Arroyo Books.
Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1994. Book. New. Soft cover. Soap operas are a fairly recent, if by now a very popular, addition to German television programming. In the United States, on the other hand, the genre is almost as old as broadcasting itself. A similar contrast exists in the discourses about soap operas. While in this country writing about soap operas is as yet almost exclusively limited to newspapers, magazines and the tradepress, there has been a long history of American scholarship devoted to this important genre of U.S. network television. Once the exclusive domain of traditional mass communications research, critical interest in soap operas has recently branched out to include relevant work done in the context of film studies, literary criticism, women¿s studies and popular culture criticism. Never-Ending Stories takes its cue from the growing international significance of soap operas, a phenomenon due in large measure to the rapid expansion of commercial television. The book is not only an introduction to the major currents of pertinent Anglo-American scholarship, it also applies and explores new problematics and methodologies in the attempt to shed light on both the product and its wide popular appeal. It is divided into three parts: Production, Texts, Audiences. Approaching soap operas in historical, aesthetic and cultural terms, Never-Ending Stories provides a critical survey of the genre's changing forms from the 1930s to the present, addresses theoretical problems of studying soap operas as texts, and proposes a concept of viewers/readers as social subjects negotiating the meanings of soap operas on the basis of their specific cultural competences. Originating from a project conducted at the University of Tübingen¿s American Studies Department and funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung, Never-Ending Stories draws upon research done in the production studios and archives of the American television industry and upon extensive fieldwork including ethnographic interviews with soap opera viewers in the United States. I. Production Hans Borchers: Introduction Ellen E. Seiter: Women Writing Soap Opera: The Careers of Irna Phillips and Jane Crusinberry Gabriele Kreutzer: Inside Daytime: Manufacturing the Soap Opera World Hans Borchers: Notes and Reflections on the Production of Soap Operas: The Example of Santa Barbara II. Texts Eva Maria Warth: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner: U.S. Prime Time Serials in the 1980s: A Critical Retrospective Gabriele Kreutzner: From a Narrative Point of View: Network Television and Serial Fictions Eva-Maria Warth: Reading about Soap Operas: The Magazine Soap Opera Digest III. Audiences Gabriele Kreutzner: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: "I was thirteen and my best friend got hooked": An Interview with Two Soap Opera Viewers Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: Gendered Meanings: Soap Operas and Female Viewers Eva-Maria Warth: "And that's my time": Soap Operas and the Temporal Organization of Women¿s Everyday Lives Hans Borchers: Television and the Problem of Intercultural Understanding: Negotiating the Meanings of American Soap Operas Abroad.
5
Borchers, Hans, Gabriele Kreutzner and Eva-Maria Warth, (eds.)

Never-ending stories: American soap operas the cultural production of meaning (1994)

Lieferung erfolgt aus/von: Mexiko ~EN PB NW

ISBN: 9783884760048 bzw. 3884760041, vermutlich in Englisch, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Taschenbuch, neu.

55,07 ($ 53,95)¹ + Versand: 25,01 ($ 24,50)¹ = 80,08 ($ 78,45)¹
unverbindlich
Lieferung aus: Mexiko, Versandkosten nach: DEU.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Arroyo Books.
Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1994. Book. New. Soft cover. Soap operas are a fairly recent, if by now a very popular, addition to German television programming. In the United States, on the other hand, the genre is almost as old as broadcasting itself. A similar contrast exists in the discourses about soap operas. While in this country writing about soap operas is as yet almost exclusively limited to newspapers, magazines and the tradepress, there has been a long history of American scholarship devoted to this important genre of U.S. network television. Once the exclusive domain of traditional mass communications research, critical interest in soap operas has recently branched out to include relevant work done in the context of film studies, literary criticism, women¿s studies and popular culture criticism. Never-Ending Stories takes its cue from the growing international significance of soap operas, a phenomenon due in large measure to the rapid expansion of commercial television. The book is not only an introduction to the major currents of pertinent Anglo-American scholarship, it also applies and explores new problematics and methodologies in the attempt to shed light on both the product and its wide popular appeal. It is divided into three parts: Production, Texts, Audiences. Approaching soap operas in historical, aesthetic and cultural terms, Never-Ending Stories provides a critical survey of the genre's changing forms from the 1930s to the present, addresses theoretical problems of studying soap operas as texts, and proposes a concept of viewers/readers as social subjects negotiating the meanings of soap operas on the basis of their specific cultural competences. Originating from a project conducted at the University of Tübingen¿s American Studies Department and funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung, Never-Ending Stories draws upon research done in the production studios and archives of the American television industry and upon extensive fieldwork including ethnographic interviews with soap opera viewers in the United States. I. Production Hans Borchers: Introduction Ellen E. Seiter: Women Writing Soap Opera: The Careers of Irna Phillips and Jane Crusinberry Gabriele Kreutzer: Inside Daytime: Manufacturing the Soap Opera World Hans Borchers: Notes and Reflections on the Production of Soap Operas: The Example of Santa Barbara II. Texts Eva Maria Warth: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner: U.S. Prime Time Serials in the 1980s: A Critical Retrospective Gabriele Kreutzner: From a Narrative Point of View: Network Television and Serial Fictions Eva-Maria Warth: Reading about Soap Operas: The Magazine Soap Opera Digest III. Audiences Gabriele Kreutzner: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: "I was thirteen and my best friend got hooked": An Interview with Two Soap Opera Viewers Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: Gendered Meanings: Soap Operas and Female Viewers Eva-Maria Warth: "And that's my time": Soap Operas and the Temporal Organization of Women¿s Everyday Lives Hans Borchers: Television and the Problem of Intercultural Understanding: Negotiating the Meanings of American Soap Operas Abroad.
6
Borchers, Hans, Gabriele Kreutzner and Eva-Maria Warth, (eds.)

Never-ending stories: American soap operas the cultural production of meaning (1994)

Lieferung erfolgt aus/von: Mexiko ~EN PB NW

ISBN: 9783884760048 bzw. 3884760041, vermutlich in Englisch, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Taschenbuch, neu.

54,73 ($ 53,95)¹ + Versand: 24,85 ($ 24,50)¹ = 79,58 ($ 78,45)¹
unverbindlich
Lieferung aus: Mexiko, Versandkosten nach: DEU.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Arroyo Books.
Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1994. Book. New. Soft cover. Soap operas are a fairly recent, if by now a very popular, addition to German television programming. In the United States, on the other hand, the genre is almost as old as broadcasting itself. A similar contrast exists in the discourses about soap operas. While in this country writing about soap operas is as yet almost exclusively limited to newspapers, magazines and the tradepress, there has been a long history of American scholarship devoted to this important genre of U.S. network television. Once the exclusive domain of traditional mass communications research, critical interest in soap operas has recently branched out to include relevant work done in the context of film studies, literary criticism, women¿s studies and popular culture criticism. Never-Ending Stories takes its cue from the growing international significance of soap operas, a phenomenon due in large measure to the rapid expansion of commercial television. The book is not only an introduction to the major currents of pertinent Anglo-American scholarship, it also applies and explores new problematics and methodologies in the attempt to shed light on both the product and its wide popular appeal. It is divided into three parts: Production, Texts, Audiences. Approaching soap operas in historical, aesthetic and cultural terms, Never-Ending Stories provides a critical survey of the genre's changing forms from the 1930s to the present, addresses theoretical problems of studying soap operas as texts, and proposes a concept of viewers/readers as social subjects negotiating the meanings of soap operas on the basis of their specific cultural competences. Originating from a project conducted at the University of Tübingen¿s American Studies Department and funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung, Never-Ending Stories draws upon research done in the production studios and archives of the American television industry and upon extensive fieldwork including ethnographic interviews with soap opera viewers in the United States. I. Production Hans Borchers: Introduction Ellen E. Seiter: Women Writing Soap Opera: The Careers of Irna Phillips and Jane Crusinberry Gabriele Kreutzer: Inside Daytime: Manufacturing the Soap Opera World Hans Borchers: Notes and Reflections on the Production of Soap Operas: The Example of Santa Barbara II. Texts Eva Maria Warth: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner: U.S. Prime Time Serials in the 1980s: A Critical Retrospective Gabriele Kreutzner: From a Narrative Point of View: Network Television and Serial Fictions Eva-Maria Warth: Reading about Soap Operas: The Magazine Soap Opera Digest III. Audiences Gabriele Kreutzner: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: "I was thirteen and my best friend got hooked": An Interview with Two Soap Opera Viewers Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: Gendered Meanings: Soap Operas and Female Viewers Eva-Maria Warth: "And that's my time": Soap Operas and the Temporal Organization of Women¿s Everyday Lives Hans Borchers: Television and the Problem of Intercultural Understanding: Negotiating the Meanings of American Soap Operas Abroad.
7
Borchers, Hans, Gabriele Kreutzner and Eva-Maria Warth, (eds.)

Never-ending stories: American soap operas the cultural production of meaning (1994)

Lieferung erfolgt aus/von: Mexiko ~EN PB NW

ISBN: 9783884760048 bzw. 3884760041, vermutlich in Englisch, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Taschenbuch, neu.

50,50 ($ 53,95)¹ + Versand: 22,93 ($ 24,50)¹ = 73,43 ($ 78,45)¹
unverbindlich
Lieferung aus: Mexiko, Versandkosten nach: DEU.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Arroyo Books.
Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1994. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. Soap operas are a fairly recent, if by now a very popular, addition to German television programming. In the United States, on the other hand, the genre is almost as old as broadcasting itself. A similar contrast exists in the discourses about soap operas. While in this country writing about soap operas is as yet almost exclusively limited to newspapers, magazines and the tradepress, there has been a long history of American scholarship devoted to this important genre of U.S. network television. Once the exclusive domain of traditional mass communications research, critical interest in soap operas has recently branched out to include relevant work done in the context of film studies, literary criticism, women¿s studies and popular culture criticism. Never-Ending Stories takes its cue from the growing international significance of soap operas, a phenomenon due in large measure to the rapid expansion of commercial television. The book is not only an introduction to the major currents of pertinent Anglo-American scholarship, it also applies and explores new problematics and methodologies in the attempt to shed light on both the product and its wide popular appeal. It is divided into three parts: Production, Texts, Audiences. Approaching soap operas in historical, aesthetic and cultural terms, Never-Ending Stories provides a critical survey of the genre's changing forms from the 1930s to the present, addresses theoretical problems of studying soap operas as texts, and proposes a concept of viewers/readers as social subjects negotiating the meanings of soap operas on the basis of their specific cultural competences. Originating from a project conducted at the University of Tübingen¿s American Studies Department and funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung, Never-Ending Stories draws upon research done in the production studios and archives of the American television industry and upon extensive fieldwork including ethnographic interviews with soap opera viewers in the United States. I. Production Hans Borchers: Introduction Ellen E. Seiter: Women Writing Soap Opera: The Careers of Irna Phillips and Jane Crusinberry Gabriele Kreutzer: Inside Daytime: Manufacturing the Soap Opera World Hans Borchers: Notes and Reflections on the Production of Soap Operas: The Example of Santa Barbara II. Texts Eva Maria Warth: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner: U.S. Prime Time Serials in the 1980s: A Critical Retrospective Gabriele Kreutzner: From a Narrative Point of View: Network Television and Serial Fictions Eva-Maria Warth: Reading about Soap Operas: The Magazine Soap Opera Digest III. Audiences Gabriele Kreutzner: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: "I was thirteen and my best friend got hooked": An Interview with Two Soap Opera Viewers Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: Gendered Meanings: Soap Operas and Female Viewers Eva-Maria Warth: "And that's my time": Soap Operas and the Temporal Organization of Women¿s Everyday Lives Hans Borchers: Television and the Problem of Intercultural Understanding: Negotiating the Meanings of American Soap Operas Abroad.
8
Borchers, Hans, Gabriele Kreutzner and Eva-Maria Warth, (eds.)

Never-ending stories: American soap operas the cultural production of meaning (1994)

Lieferung erfolgt aus/von: Mexiko ~EN PB NW

ISBN: 9783884760048 bzw. 3884760041, vermutlich in Englisch, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Taschenbuch, neu.

51,00 ($ 53,95)¹ + Versand: 23,16 ($ 24,50)¹ = 74,16 ($ 78,45)¹
unverbindlich
Lieferung aus: Mexiko, Versandkosten nach: DEU.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Arroyo Books.
Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1994. Soft cover. New/No Jacket. Soap operas are a fairly recent, if by now a very popular, addition to German television programming. In the United States, on the other hand, the genre is almost as old as broadcasting itself. A similar contrast exists in the discourses about soap operas. While in this country writing about soap operas is as yet almost exclusively limited to newspapers, magazines and the tradepress, there has been a long history of American scholarship devoted to this important genre of U.S. network television. Once the exclusive domain of traditional mass communications research, critical interest in soap operas has recently branched out to include relevant work done in the context of film studies, literary criticism, women¿s studies and popular culture criticism. Never-Ending Stories takes its cue from the growing international significance of soap operas, a phenomenon due in large measure to the rapid expansion of commercial television. The book is not only an introduction to the major currents of pertinent Anglo-American scholarship, it also applies and explores new problematics and methodologies in the attempt to shed light on both the product and its wide popular appeal. It is divided into three parts: Production, Texts, Audiences. Approaching soap operas in historical, aesthetic and cultural terms, Never-Ending Stories provides a critical survey of the genre's changing forms from the 1930s to the present, addresses theoretical problems of studying soap operas as texts, and proposes a concept of viewers/readers as social subjects negotiating the meanings of soap operas on the basis of their specific cultural competences. Originating from a project conducted at the University of Tübingen¿s American Studies Department and funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung, Never-Ending Stories draws upon research done in the production studios and archives of the American television industry and upon extensive fieldwork including ethnographic interviews with soap opera viewers in the United States. I. Production Hans Borchers: Introduction Ellen E. Seiter: Women Writing Soap Opera: The Careers of Irna Phillips and Jane Crusinberry Gabriele Kreutzer: Inside Daytime: Manufacturing the Soap Opera World Hans Borchers: Notes and Reflections on the Production of Soap Operas: The Example of Santa Barbara II. Texts Eva Maria Warth: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner: U.S. Prime Time Serials in the 1980s: A Critical Retrospective Gabriele Kreutzner: From a Narrative Point of View: Network Television and Serial Fictions Eva-Maria Warth: Reading about Soap Operas: The Magazine Soap Opera Digest III. Audiences Gabriele Kreutzner: Introduction Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: "I was thirteen and my best friend got hooked": An Interview with Two Soap Opera Viewers Gabriele Kreutzner / Eva-Maria Warth: Gendered Meanings: Soap Operas and Female Viewers Eva-Maria Warth: "And that's my time": Soap Operas and the Temporal Organization of Women¿s Everyday Lives Hans Borchers: Television and the Problem of Intercultural Understanding: Negotiating the Meanings of American Soap Operas Abroad.
Lade…