Realism in TV Drama

Real to Reel ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Martin Sohn-Rethel
Keyword(s):  
Production Line ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Mad Men ◽  
Opera Production ◽  
Actual Life

This chapter discusses realism in TV drama. The narrative realism code engaged by the continuing serial narrative of soap operas and resulting in a flow akin to the rhythm of actual life is strongly contrasted by its opposite, narrative disruption. By necessity, the industrial nature of the soap opera production line that has to churn out three, four, or five episodes a week imposes severe constraints on realism. No single storyline can continue its natural lifespan without disappearing, if only temporarily, to make way for others. In any case, this is how soap institutions target different audience segments and guarantee variety. The chapter then looks at The Street (BBC, 2006–9) and Mad Men (AMC, 2007–15).

scholarly journals Commercial Television in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 175 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 155-176
Author(s):  
Maria Myutel
Keyword(s):  
Soap Opera ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Commercial Television ◽  
Religious Minority ◽  
Commercial Soap ◽  
Opera Production ◽  
Television Formats

Abstract This article sheds light on previously unknown aspects of Indonesian private television by focusing on the role of the ethno-religious minority of Indonesian Sindhi in the establishment and development of commercial soap opera production. Part of the global trading community of Sindhayat, the local Sindhis have mobilized their translocal and transnational networks to take a dominant position in the emerging sector of national media. Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork among media practitioners and Indonesian Sindhi community members, the article examines how Sindhis’ sense of community and shared desires and sentiments have resulted in a lack of variety of television formats and the introduction of Islam-themed soap operas to prime-time television.

Contradictions and Tensions Between Old and New: An Audience Perception of Indigenous Culture Representation in Soap Opera

2020 ◽  
pp. 002190962097244
Author(s):  
Oluwayemisi Mary Onyenankeya ◽  
Kevin Onyenankeya ◽  
Oluyinka Osunkunle
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Cultural Tensions

There is a perception that soap operas are progressively infusing dominant social values and ideas while constructing and positioning indigenous cultures as peripheral and inconsistent with modernity. This article aims at ascertaining audience perceptions of and attitudes toward the construction and representation of indigenous cultures in Generations: The Legacy within the framework of indigeneity and audience reception theories. Using quantitative methodology, 350 questionnaires were distributed to a randomly selected sample. Findings showed the majority of the audience felt the soap represents indigenous cultures as the ‘insignificant other’ and perpetuates stereotypes about traditional indigenous groups. This process creates cultural tensions.

scholarly journals California and Irony in Mad Men

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney Taveira
Keyword(s):  
Visual Rhetoric ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
The Self ◽  
Television Series ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mad Men ◽  
Intimate Relations ◽  
The Aesthetic

The combination of melodramatic and art cinematic techniques and influences in AMC’s television series Mad Men (2007¬–) reveals how a melodramatic televisuality can image novel modes of social and intimate relations and an alternative to the archetypal American narrative of the self-made man. Set in 1960s’ America, the series uses a contemporaneous and cosmopolitan California to triangulate the formal and narrative insistence of the past on the present. This triangulation is played out by Don Draper’s relations with his family, women, and his former identities and by the representation of homosexuality throughout the series. The application of Lee Edelman’s concept of “sinthomosexuality” and Richard Rorty’s “liberal ironist” reveal a queer, visual rhetoric to the show’s narrative and formal structures, forming a queer irony that allows the show to straddle the aesthetic extremes of “quality TV” (Jane Feuer) and soap opera, which, in turn, queers the exemplary American heterosexuality of Don Draper.

scholarly journals Addictive Behaviour among Women Viewers of Indian Soap Opera

Webology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (Special Issue 03) ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
Dr.K.M. Ashifa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Vital Role ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Domestic Life ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
Indian Soap ◽  
To Come ◽  
Female Audience ◽  
Occupational Life

Media is an integral part of society and it plays vital role for inculcating information. In the course of accomplishing its duties and functions, media, especially television influence on society relatively depending on the audience it reaches. Soaps have a predominant female audience. Some soaps do include men viewers but some social researchers pointed, women are considering most peculiar viewers. They are emotionally attached and value particular soaps in their personal and domestic life. Today people are leading a fast life. People should have some kind of recreation in their get relation of their physical and psychological balances of life. So, different people have different activities to spend their leisure. Based on the present study, most of the women are getting involved with the soap opera and were emotionally attached and curiously waiting for next episodes as it is effecting social, family and occupational life. So the present study tried to come out with fact of effects of soap operas’ on women’s behaviour in the aspects of socio- cultural aspects, economic aspects, psychological aspects, physiological aspects and functional aspects.

Alcohol and Soap Operas: Drinking in the Light of Day

1985 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Wallack ◽  
Warren Breed ◽  
James R. De Foe
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Negative Reinforcement ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Drinking Problems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Drinking ◽  
High Risk Drinking ◽  
Source Of Information

Television programming serves as an important source of information about health in general and alcohol issues in particular. This article reports on a study of drinking portrayals on the day time soap opera, “All My Children.” Major drinking themes over the past four and one-half years are reviewed. In addition, a study of thirty consecutive episodes in summer 1984 is reported and findings are compared to other research on soap opera drinking. Overall, “All My Children” was found to be doing a good job of accurately portraying drinking problems. Several good role models for social drinking and abstinence were presented and negative reinforcement for heavier or high risk drinking was frequent. Several recommendations are presented regarding ways that soap operas can take greater advantage of a unique opportunity for health education.

scholarly journals Behavior Analysis Matrix for Women Soap Opera Viewers: A Structural Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 206-212
Author(s):  
K. M. Ashifa
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modelling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Global Model ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Psychological Traits ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Behavioural Analysis

Objective - In modern times, soap operas are thought to be a good source of leisure and are considered a powerful medium for propagating specific attitudes, ideas and different cultures within society. They are also useful for educating, informing and entertaining audiences, particularly women and children. The present investigation examines behavioural changes in women who watch soap operas. The Behaviour Analysis Matrix is used to assess changes in socio-cultural, psychological, economic, physiological and functional traits. Methodology/Technique - The present paper develops a global model for behavioural analysis of women who view soap operas using structural equation modelling. Findings - The present SEM model on behavioural analysis of soap opera viewers can be adopted as a global model for intervention. Novelty - The present study is useful for medical personal, social workers, academics and researchers in understanding the positive and negative effects of television shows on women, specifically, whether these serials create attitude changes among modern day women and the extent of the effect of their inter-personal relationships with family members and society. It is believed that this study will assist satellite media personnel in the development of their future programmes with social consciousness. Type of Paper: Empirical Keywords: Structural Equation Modelling; Performance; Socio-cultural Traits; Economical Traits; Psychological Traits; Physiological Traits. JEL Classification: M30, M31, M39.

scholarly journals Soap operas and the history of fan discussion

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Ford
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Online Social Networks ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Internet Development

For decades, fans of U.S. soap operas have formed social networks surrounding their shows, and they did so even before the concept entered the vernacular. Soap fans, who started on a geographically local scale and built their communities through grassroots efforts, have found a variety of venues to connect with one another over the past several decades. This study looks at the pre-Internet development of these social networks to show how that trajectory relates to the current online community of soap opera fans. Although several scholars have studied soap opera fandom, few have taken an historical approach at understanding the trajectory of soap fandom, a view especially necessary in an era where online social networks are at the center of audience studies and where cornerstone U.S. soap operas are struggling to retain relevance and audience. To fill this gap, I argue that understanding fan networks today requires looking back to previous methods of fan networking. Soaps' longevity (the youngest U.S. soap is more than 20 years old) and frequency (all U.S. daytime soaps are daily) make them crucial texts in demonstrating how the roots of fan social networks in a pre-Internet era helped shape that fandom's transition onto the Internet, and they also illustrate the continued evolution of these networks as fans move online.

scholarly journals Woman Searching for Family Nafkah in Islamic Economic Views

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-321
Author(s):  
Nurhadi Nurhadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Activity ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Family Needs ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Islamic Economic ◽  
Family Survival

Abstract: This article focuses on the discussion of Islamic and economic views on women making a living for families (husbands and children). This phenomenon is already popular in Indonesian society, with many female workers (TKW) making a living or working abroad for the sake of family survival (husband and children), this is also reinforced by soap opera shows on private national television titled “The world is upside down” as a manifestation of the socio-economic facts of the Indonesian family today which is visualized as soap operas. This is a big question mark for socio-economic observers and practitioners of sakinah or Muslim families. In general, the main task of making a family living in Islam is assigned to the man (husband). Although it is justified that women (wives) earn a living (working) to help the family economy if the husband’s income is insufficient for family needs, provided that the woman in work does not bring shame, slander and harm to herself and the continuity of her household, and can maintain her honor by always covering aurat and keep away from things that produce salaries are not halal (haram). So a woman who is a family breadwinner in the view of Islamic economics is permitted, but that as an alternative to maintaining survival and domestic life with her husband and children, also does not violate her nature as a wife and mother for her children. This analysis arises because economic activity is a social activity, so the social is very closely related to the economy, also the Islamic economy and  ocioeconomic family in Islam.

scholarly journals SINEMA RELIGI DALAM PUSARAN INDUSTRI MEDIA

1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-290
Author(s):  
Ropingi El Ishaq
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Soap Operas ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Direct Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tv Program

Normatively, media functions as a means of conveying information, education, andentertainment as well as controlling and relating the society. On the basis of its function,media has a chance to build a direct communication with the society so that it has a strategicposition that may give benefits not only to the social aspect, but also to economic and politicalaspects.One way to develop communication with the public is through soap opera program.This TV program is chosen since it can highly attract public interest. In the point of view ofmedia industry, public or audience are considered as customers who have to be served by theproducer. The more the customers are satisfied, the more the producer gets benefit. One themeof soap operas that can highly attract public interest is religion-related theme.It reflects the normative society understanding of religion. As a result, the religiousmessage contained in the soap operas is very formal. Moreover, since it can highly attractpublic attention, it can be utilized by media industry to get as much profit as they can and itdoes not function to give education and wholesome entertainment.

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