Soap opera and women's talk : the pleasure of resistance
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Soap opera and women's talk : the pleasure of resistance
（Communication and human values）
Sage Pulbications, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-207) and index
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Description
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, but also attempts to explain the process whereby the leaks occur.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Questions of Identity
The Politics of Pleasure
Saying the Unsayable
Soap Opera and Hegemony
The Spoken Text
The Boundaries of Pleasure
Cultural Capital and Strategic Knowledge
The Power of Laughter
Resistive Readings
Conclusion
A Never-Ending Story
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