To be continued…

Routledge

1995

IX, 398 p.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-387) and index.

9780415110075

Contents: Introduction / Robert C. Allen 1. Doubtless to be continued: A brief history of serial narrative / Roger Hagedorn 2. The role of soap opera in the development of feminist television scholarship / Charlotte Brunsdon 3. Social issues and realist soaps: A study of British soaps in the 1980s/1990s / Christine Geraghty 4. National and cultural identity in a Welsh-language soap opera / Alison Griffiths5. Global Neighbours? / Stephen Crofts 6. The end of civilization as we knew it: Chances and the postrealist soap opera / Ien Ang and Jon Stratton 7. "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV": Characters, actors and acting in television soap opera / Jeremy G. Butler 8. Plotting Paternity: Looking for dad on the daytime soaps / Laura Stempel Mumford 9. "They killed off Marlena, but she's on another show now": Fantasy, reality, and pleasure in watching daytime soap operas / Louise Spence.

To Be Continued... explores the world's most popular form of television drama; the soap opera. From Denver to Delhi, Moscow to Manchester, audiences eagerly await the next episode of As the World Turns, The Rich Also Weep or Eastenders. But the popularity of soap operas in Britain and the US pales in comparison to the role that they play in media cultures in other parts of the world. To Be Continued... investigates both the cultural specificity of television soap operas and their reception in other cultures, covering soap production and soap watching in the U.S., Asia, Europe, Australia and Latin America. The contributors consider the nature of soap as a media text, the history of the serial narrative as a form, and the role of the soap opera in the development of feminist media criticism. To Be Continued... presents the first scholarly examination of soap opera as global media phenomenon.

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