No end to her : soap opera and the female subject
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No end to her : soap opera and the female subject
University of California Press, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
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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