Watching Dallas : soap opera and the melodramatic imagination

Author(s)

• Ang, Ien
• Couling, Della

Bibliographic Information

Watching Dallas : soap opera and the melodramatic imagination

Ien Ang ; translated by Della Couling

Routledge, 1989

• : pbk

Other Title

Het geval Dallas : populaire kultuur, ideologie en plezier

Note

"First publilshed ... by Uitgeverij SUA, Amsterdam, c1982 ... English translation (with revisions) first published in 1985 by Methuen & Co. Ltd"--T.p. verso

Description based on reprint 1993

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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?

Table of Contents

• 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

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BA26015801
• ISBN:
  • 0415045983
• LCCN: 85015481
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 148 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN1992.77.D3
  • DC19 : 791.45/72
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Dallas (Television program)