Love and Ideology in the Afternoon: Soap Opera, Women and Television Genre

by Laura Stempel Mumford and Russell E. Mumford

Book Overview

"Why do I like soap operas?" Laura Stempel Mumford asks, and her answer emerges in a feminist analysis of soap opera that participates in current debates about popular culture, television, and ideology. She argues that the conventional daytime soap has an implicit and at times explicit political agenda that cooperates in the "teaching" of male dominance and the related oppressions of racism, classism, and heterosexism--so that they seem inevitable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025320965X
• ISBN13: 9780253209658
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"