Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination

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Psychology Press, 1989 - Performing Arts - 148 pages
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?
 

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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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