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Author:   Elizabeth Searle ,  Suzanne Strempek Shea
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9781476665283

ISBN 10:   1476665281
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   03 April 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Suzanne Strempek Shea) Episode 1: Days of Our Lives—Soaps as Part of Growing Quentin, We’re Trapped! (Rita Ciresi) Latchkey Lunch with Love of Life (Leigh Montville) Sunny, Seductive Summer Bay (Nuala Ní Chonchúir) Lesbians, Jews and Patriarchal Oppression: Or, How Learned to Love Beverly Hills, 90210 (Emily Franklin) “Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller”: The Literary, ­Music-Loving, Geek Girls of Gilmore (Lisa Borders) Dynasty II: The Colbys (Aaron Hamburger) Episode 2: All My Children—Soaps as Family Affair Dr. Steve at Bat (Tommy Shea) The Doctors and William Beaumont General ­Hospi-tale (Brenda Sparks Prescott) My Years of Tonsillitis (Ann Hood) A Boxer’s Secret (Jose Antonio Rivera) A Soapy Life (Caitlin McCarthy) My Mother’s Stories (Lesléa Newman) Their Show (Shara McCallum) The Kind That Lasts Forever (Marianne Leone) Episode 3: Another World—Soaps as Cultural Commentary Thoughts on the Rooftop (Allan G. Hunter) Dark Shadows: Look Homeward, Vampire (Nancy Holder) Accepting an Invitation to Love (Ted Deppe) Learning to Watch (Kyoko Mori) Bringing Hope (Marie ­Hannan-Mandel) Episode 4: Dynasty—Soaps as Insider Game Waterbed (Thorsten Kaye) Three Months on the Inside: Life as a Guiding Light Intern (Erin Roberts) Everything I Ever Wanted to Know About Sex (But Was Afraid Mike Douglas Would Ask Zsa Zsa Gabor) (Charlie Mason) For the Love of Adam (Tigh M. Rickman) I Thickened the Plot—and Other Confessions of a ­Soap-Opera Writer (David Hiltbrand) Charm!ed (Sebastian Stuart) An Unexpected Stage (Louise Shaffer) How Luke and Laura Killed the Modern Soap Opera (Richard M. Simms) Episode 5: As the World Turns—Soaps as ­Life-Long Passion As My World Turned: A Timeline (Elinor Lipman) Sister Soaps: Young and Restless and Bold and Beautiful (Elizabeth Searle) A Guiding Light Extinguished (Suzanne Strempek Shea) A Fan’s Perspective (Robert Reid ) Undying Vampire Love (Susan Lilley) Soaps: How Did I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways (Blake Wandesforde) Thirty Years in Pine Valley (Marie Lathers) Sleepless in the Land of Soaps (Jamie Cat Callan) About the Contributors Index

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Elizabeth Searle is the author of five books of fiction. Her show Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera has been widely produced and has drawn national media attention. She teaches at Stonecoast MFA. Suzanne Strempek Shea is the author of six novels as well as six nonfiction books. A former newspaper reporter, she is writer in residence at Bay Path University and teaches nonfiction and fiction at Stonecoast MFA.

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