Tabloidism, television and the neoliberal soap opera

2020 ◽  
pp. 112-141
Author(s):  
Bethany Usher
Keyword(s):  
Soap Opera

L'espace-temps de la télévision : le cas du soap opera

Quaderni ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Mottet
Keyword(s):  
Soap Opera

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 Soap opera in the maze: Geometry matters in Marangoni flows

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Temprano-Coleto ◽  
François J. Peaudecerf ◽  
Julien R. Landel ◽  
Frédéric Gibou ◽  
Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz
Keyword(s):  
Soap Opera ◽  
Marangoni Flows

scholarly journals The politics of a ‘Poncy Pillowcase’: Migration and borders in Coronation Street’

Politics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandria J Innes ◽  
Robert J Topinka
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Soap Opera ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
And Gender

This article examines the ways in which popular culture stages and supplies resources for agency in everyday life, with particular attention to migration and borders. Drawing upon cultural studies, and specific insights originating from the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, we explore how intersectional identities such as race, ethnicity, class, and gender are experienced in relation to the globalisation of culture and identity in a 2007 Coronation Street storyline. The soap opera genre offers particular insights into how agency emerges in everyday life as migrants and locals navigate the forces of globalisation. We argue that a focus on popular culture can mitigate the problem of isolating migrant experiences from local experiences in migrant-receiving areas.

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