Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination

By Ien Ang

Book Overview

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?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415045983
• ISBN13: 9780415045988
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"