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Teaching TV Soaps
by Lou Alexander and Alison Cousens with additional material by Eileen Lewis
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Soap opera is an essential element to any Media Studies course. This Teaching Guide looks at four key areas in TV soap opera: Forms and Conventions, Representation, Institutions and Audiences. It provides an accessible and concise overview of the theoretical approaches and offers four case to support and illustrate these approaches.
Contents include:
- Introduction: Assessment contexts, How to use this guide, Why teach TV soaps? Approaches to teaching, Schemes of work;
- Key concepts: Institutions; Forms and conventions; Audiences; Representation and ideology
- Case studies: EastEnders, Neighbours, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks
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- Catalogue no: BR056 £24.95
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