1st Edition

Watching Dallas Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination

By Ien Ang Copyright 1982
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Dallas, one of the great internationally-screened soap operas, offers us first and foremost entertainment. But what is it about Dallas that makes that entertainment so successful, and how exactly is its entertainment constructed?

Introduction; Chapter 1 DALLAS between reality and fiction; Chapter 2 DALLAS and the melodramatic imagination; Chapter 3 DALLAS and the ideology of mass culture; Chapter 4 DALLAS and feminism;

Biography

Ien Ang, Della Couling