UID:
almafu_9961448830402883
Format:
1 online resource (223 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-98430-8
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9786611142285
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1-281-14228-X
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0-203-13161-4
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1-283-54644-2
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1-134-98431-6
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9786613858894
Series Statement:
Communication and Society
Content:
Potboilers looks at the many forms of popular narrative - in print, film and TV. It considers the ways in they have been analysed in literary criticism, sociology, communications, media and cultural studies. The book introduces and summarizes two decades of debate about mass-produced fictions and their position within popular culture. It assesses the methods that have been used in these debates, focussing both on narrative analysis and the communications process. It explores generic conventions, the role of commercial strategies, and the nature of the audience with reference to cr
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Potboilers; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Concepts and methods; 1. Approaches to popular fiction; 2. Narrative grammar; 3. Narrative and connotative processes; 4. The speaking/reading subject; 5. Narrative and ideology; 6. Hegemony and subject position; 7. Genre; Part II: Case studies; 8. Crime fiction: the genre dimension; 9. Crime fiction: film noir and gender; 10. Soap opera, romance and femininity; 11. Reading as a Woman; 12. Sitcom: commercial imperative sand humour; 13. Sitcom and social reality; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-00977-4
Language:
English
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