Consuming Pleasures : Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera.
Hayward, Jennifer.
Consuming Pleasures : Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (239 pages)
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Mutual Friends: The Development of the Mass Serial -- Nineteenth-Century Readers of Serial Fiction -- Case Study: Our Mutual Friend -- Reviewers as Readers -- There was no such thing as I": The Narrative Preoccupations of Serial Fiction -- 2 Terry's Expert Readers: The Rise of the Continuity Comic -- Streamline your mind": Comic Strip Production in the Age of Ford and Taylor -- Case Study: Terry and the Pirates -- Active Readers and Comic Agendas -- Comic Ideologies: Pinup Girls and "Screwy Chinese -- The Decline of the Serial Strip -- 3 The Future of the Serial Form -- Audiences and Soap Opera Production -- Knowledge and Power: Soap Narrative Strategies -- Audiences and Power -- Case Study: Redeeming the Rapist -- Humor, Irony, and Self-Reflexivity -- Tune In Tomorrow -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
9780813149639
Television series -- History.
Serialized fiction -- History and criticism.
Authors and readers -- History.
Electronic books.
PN1992.8.S4 -- .H39 2009eb
791.456
Consuming Pleasures : Active Audiences and Serial Fictions from Dickens to Soap Opera. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (239 pages)
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Mutual Friends: The Development of the Mass Serial -- Nineteenth-Century Readers of Serial Fiction -- Case Study: Our Mutual Friend -- Reviewers as Readers -- There was no such thing as I": The Narrative Preoccupations of Serial Fiction -- 2 Terry's Expert Readers: The Rise of the Continuity Comic -- Streamline your mind": Comic Strip Production in the Age of Ford and Taylor -- Case Study: Terry and the Pirates -- Active Readers and Comic Agendas -- Comic Ideologies: Pinup Girls and "Screwy Chinese -- The Decline of the Serial Strip -- 3 The Future of the Serial Form -- Audiences and Soap Opera Production -- Knowledge and Power: Soap Narrative Strategies -- Audiences and Power -- Case Study: Redeeming the Rapist -- Humor, Irony, and Self-Reflexivity -- Tune In Tomorrow -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
9780813149639
Television series -- History.
Serialized fiction -- History and criticism.
Authors and readers -- History.
Electronic books.
PN1992.8.S4 -- .H39 2009eb
791.456