Soap Opera and Women's Talk: The Pleasure of Resistance - Couverture souple

Brown, Mary Ellen

 
9780803943933: Soap Opera and Women's Talk: The Pleasure of Resistance
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803943938 ISBN 13 : 9780803943933
Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 1994

Synopsis

How can such an apparently trivial or even exploitative genre as soap opera be associated with the notion of empowerment for its viewers? Mary Ellen Brown argues that soap operas create and support a social network in which talk becomes a form of resistive pleasure.

Undertaken as an ethnographic study in which the author is a member of the group, a fan and also a researcher, this book shows that engagement with soap operas creates an opening for women to serve as wedges into the dominant culture. This exploration into how hegemonic notions of feminity and womanhood are developed at one cultural site and how they can be accepted, resisted and negotiated in the process of consumption not only claims that hegemony is leaky, bu

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Éditeur
SAGE Publications Inc
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803943938
ISBN 13 
9780803943933
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780803943926: Soap Opera and Women's Talk: The Pleasure of Resistance

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  080394392X ISBN 13 :  9780803943926
Editeur : SAGE Publications Inc, 1994
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