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UNINA9910455429703321 |
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Autore |
Hayward Jennifer <1961-> |
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Titolo |
Consuming pleasures : active audiences and serial fictions from Dickens to soap opera / / Jennifer Hayward |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2009 |
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©1997 |
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ISBN |
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0-8131-8447-9 |
0-8131-4963-0 |
0-8131-7002-8 |
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Edizione |
[Paperback edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 228p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Television series - History |
Serialized fiction - History and criticism |
Authors and readers - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Mutual Friends: The Development of the Mass Serial; Nineteenth-Century Readers of Serial Fiction; Case Study: Our Mutual Friend; Reviewers as Readers; ""There was no such thing as I"": The Narrative Preoccupations of Serial Fiction; 2 Terry's Expert Readers: The Rise of the Continuity Comic; ""Streamline your mind"": Comic Strip Production in the Age of Ford and Taylor; Case Study: Terry and the Pirates; Active Readers and Comic Agendas; Comic Ideologies: Pinup Girls and ""Screwy Chinese""; The Decline of the Serial Strip |
3 The Future of the Serial Form Audiences and Soap Opera Production; Knowledge and Power: Soap Narrative Strategies; Audiences and Power; Case Study: Redeeming the Rapist; Humor, Irony, and Self-Reflexivity; Tune In Tomorrow; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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""To be continued... "" Whether these words fall at a season-ending episode of Star Trek or a TV commercial flirtation between coffee-loving neighbors, true fans find them impossible to resist. Ever since the 1830's, when Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers enticed a mass |
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