Soap Opera Confidential

Writers and Soap Insiders on Why We'll Tune in Tomorrow as the World Turns Restlessly by the Guiding Light of Our Lives
Herausgeber: Searle, Elizabeth; Shea, Suzanne Strempek

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Produktbeschreibung

Soap operas have captured loyal, often lifelong viewers since the first American daytime serial debuted in 1949. In this collection of 29 new and five classic essays and recollections, authors and soap opera insiders delve into the passion for television melodrama that compels viewers to "tune in tomorrow." The contributors include iconic soap star Thorsten Kaye, journalist Leigh Montville, authors Elinor Lipman and Ann Hood, and editors of Soaps in Depth magazine. They explore the soap phenomenon from a range of perspectives and consider the appeal of a venerable genre in which, as novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard observes, "everyone's life was more depressing than mine."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 273g
• ISBN-13: 9781476665283
• ISBN-10: 1476665281
• Artikelnr.: 46005006

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Searle is the author of five books of fiction. Her show Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera has been widely produced and has drawn national media attention. She teaches at Stonecoast MFA. Suzanne Strempek Shea is the author of six novels as well as six nonfiction books. A former newspaper reporter, she is writer in residence at Bay Path University and teaches nonfiction and fiction at Stonecoast MFA.

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (Suzanne Strempek Shea)
Episode 1: Days of Our Lives-Soaps as Part of Growing
Quentin, We're Trapped! (Rita Ciresi)
Latchkey Lunch with Love of Life (Leigh Montville)
Sunny, Seductive Summer Bay (Nuala Ní Chonchúir)
Lesbians, Jews and Patriarchal Oppression: Or, How
Learned to Love Beverly Hills, 90210 (Emily Franklin)
"Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller": The Literary, Music-Loving,
Geek Girls of Gilmore (Lisa Borders)
Dynasty II: The Colbys (Aaron Hamburger)
Episode 2: All My Children-Soaps as Family Affair Dr. Steve at Bat (Tommy
Shea)
The Doctors and William Beaumont General Hospi-tale (Brenda Sparks
Prescott)
My Years of Tonsillitis (Ann Hood)
A Boxer's Secret (Jose Antonio Rivera)
A Soapy Life (Caitlin McCarthy)
My Mother's Stories (Lesléa Newman)
Their Show (Shara McCallum)
The Kind That Lasts Forever (Marianne Leone)
Episode 3: Another World-Soaps as Cultural Commentary
Thoughts on the Rooftop (Allan G. Hunter)
Dark Shadows: Look Homeward, Vampire (Nancy Holder)
Accepting an Invitation to Love (Ted Deppe)
Learning to Watch (Kyoko Mori)
Bringing Hope (Marie Hannan-Mandel)
Episode 4: Dynasty-Soaps as Insider Game Waterbed (Thorsten Kaye)
Three Months on the Inside: Life as a Guiding Light Intern (Erin Roberts)
Everything I Ever Wanted to Know About Sex (But Was
Afraid Mike Douglas Would Ask Zsa Zsa Gabor) (Charlie Mason)
For the Love of Adam (Tigh M. Rickman)
I Thickened the Plot-and Other Confessions of a Soap-Opera Writer
(David Hiltbrand)
Charm!ed (Sebastian Stuart)
An Unexpected Stage (Louise Shaffer)
How Luke and Laura Killed the Modern Soap Opera (Richard M. Simms)
Episode 5: As the World Turns-Soaps as Life-Long Passion
As My World Turned: A Timeline (Elinor Lipman)
Sister Soaps: Young and Restless and Bold and Beautiful (Elizabeth Searle)
A Guiding Light Extinguished (Suzanne Strempek Shea)
A Fan's Perspective (Robert Reid )
Undying Vampire Love (Susan Lilley)
Soaps: How Did I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways (Blake Wandesforde)
Thirty Years in Pine Valley (Marie Lathers)
Sleepless in the Land of Soaps (Jamie Cat Callan)
About the Contributors
Index