1st Edition

Watching Dallas Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination

By Ien Ang Copyright 1982
    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