Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic ImaginationDallas, 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? |
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DALLAS between reality and fiction | 13 |
DALLAS and the melodramatic imagination | 51 |
DALLAS and the ideology of mass culture | 86 |
DALLAS and feminism | 117 |
Notes | 137 |
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