No end to her : soap opera and the female subject

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No end to her : soap opera and the female subject

Martha Nochimson

University of California Press, c1992

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Even though soap opera commands a vast and loyal audience, it has been trivialized by the mainstream media and even libeled as a form of pornography designed to keep women in their place. In this incisive defense of a much-maligned genre, Martha Nochimson demonstrates how soap opera validates an essentially feminine perspective and responds to complex issues of women's desires and power by creating strong, active female characters. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and feminist film criticism, Nochimson explores the ways in which soap opera has inverted the typical male-centered narrative characterized by a domineering, Oedipal father-son relationship that serves to control female energy. Instead, women in soap operas resist their stabilizing role in male hierarchies. In breaking with traditional narrative, soaps create a distinctly feminine, open-ended format capable of tolerating ambiguity and lack of resolution. Soap operas emerge as vessels of a subterranean female power and defy women's 'assigned' place in male-designed social structures. It is time, Nochimson argues, to take a fresh look at one of America's few original art forms. Anyone interested in television, American culture, and gender roles will find "No End to Her" a startling and compelling read.

目次

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Prologue: An Invitation to Recovery 1 No End to Her: The Place of Soap Opera as Screen Fiction Soap Opera, Femininity, and Desire Soap Opera, Mainstream Critical Discourse, and Desire Freudian Film Criticism, the Screen Subject, and Desire Narrative Syntax and Desire A Differently Gendered Screen, a Different Narrative Myth Conclusion: The Female Subject of Soap Opera 2 Persephone, Not Oedipus: Soap Opera and the Fantasy Female Subject before 1978 Releasing the Screen Heroine from Bond-age The Radio Heroine The Early Television Heroine The Importance of Being Victoria Lord Conclusion 3 The Fantasy Female Subject after 1978 General Hospital: Crooks in the Crannies Days of Our Lives: Energizing the Narrative of the Couple Santa Barbara: Julia's New Frontier Conclusion 4 Persephone's Labyrinth: The Aesthetics of an Involuntary Feminine Discourse Suspense Multi plots Melodrama Actor Chemistry and Soap Opera Melodrama Conclusion 5 Persephone's "Wild Zone": Difference, Interiority, and Linear Historicity in Soap Opera Historical Difference: Culture and Religion Historical Difference: Race Historical Difference: Homosexuality Interiority: A Different History Conclusion Epilogue: What Is Normal? NOTES REFERENCES INDEX OF SOAP OPERA CHARACTERS INDEX

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