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Never Too Much: The Everyday Implausible in American Daytime Soap Opera Aesthetics, 1930 to Today

Description:

In this dissertation, I assert that a contradictory aesthetic has remained and been reborn in the U.S. daytime soap opera through time and technology; I call this the “everyday implausible.” Using textual analysis and archival research, I follow this genre from its beginnings on radio, through its move to television...

Keyword:

soap operas, radio, television, YouTube, sound, and aesthetics

Subject:

American history, Mass communication, and Women's studies

Creator:

Emmett, Ilana Ruby

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

06/22/2022

Date Created:

2022-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_879402 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15934