No End to Her - Soap Opera and the Female Subject (Paperback)

Even though soap opera commands a vast and loyal audience, it has been trivialized by the mainstream media and even libelled as a form of pornography designed to keep women in their place. In this defence of a much-maligned genre, Martha Nochimson demonstrates how soap opera validates an essentially feminine perspective and responds to complex issues of women's desires and power by creating strong, active female characters. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and feminist film criticism, Nochimson explores the ways in which soap opera has inverted the typical male-centered narrative charcterized by a domineering, Oedipal father-son relationship that serves to control female energy. Instead, women in soap operas resist their stabilizing role in male hierarchies. In breaking with traditional narrative, soaps create a distinctly feminine, open-ended format capable of tolerating ambiguity and lack of resolution.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1993
First published:	March 1993
Authors:	Martha Nochimson
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	237
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-07771-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Television Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-520-07771-7
Barcode:	9780520077713

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