To Be Continued...: Soap Operas Around the World

by Robert C. Allen

Book Overview

To Be Continued... explores the world's most popular form of television drama; the soap opera. From Denver to Delhi, Moscow to Manchester, audiences eagerly await the next episode of As the World Turns, The Rich Also Weep or Eastenders. But the popularity of soap operas in Britain and the US pales in comparison to the role that they play in media cultures in other parts of the world.

To Be Continued... investigates both the cultural specificity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415110076
• ISBN13: 9780415110075
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"