Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination

by Ien Ang

Overview

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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415045988
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/28/1985
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ien Ang, Della Couling

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;