1st Edition
The Dynasty Years Hollywood Television and Critical Media Studies
By Jostein Gripsrud
Copyright 1995
328 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Dynasty Years documents and analyses in detail 'the Dynasty phenomenon', the hotly debated success of the Hollywood-made 'Rolls Royce of a primetime soap' which heralded a profound transformation of European television. From the operatic camp of Krystle and Alexis' fight in the lilypond or the Moldavian wedding massacre to the unprecedented gay sub-plot, Dynasty represented, in the words of... Read more
Preface and acknowledgements, INTRODUCTION: Signalling a position 1 HOLLYWOOD SPEAKS 2 ‘THE CULTURAL DEBATE OF THE AGES’: History, culture and media politics in public reception 3 DIMENSIONS OF DOMESTIC RECEPTION 4 RECONSIDERING (PRIME-TIME) SOAP OPERA 5 THE NOT SO ‘POLYSEMIC’ DYNASTY TEXT 6 THE SOCIAL MEANINGS OF SOAP OPERA AND THE DYNASTY EVENT
Biography
Jostein Gripsrud
