- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Daytime Budget Cuts
- Agnes Nixon and Soap Opera “Chemistry Tests”
- Giving Soaps a Good Scrub
- The Way We Were
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Growing Old Together
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Of Soap Operas, Space Operas, and Television’s Rocky Romance with the Feminine Form
- The Ironic and Convoluted Relationship Between Daytime and Primetime Soap Operas
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Preserving Soap History
- Did the 2007 Writers Strike Save Daytime’s Highest-Rated Drama?
- “The Rhetoric of the Camera in Television Soap Opera” Revisited
- It’s Not All Talk
- Guiding Light
- The Evolution of the Production Process of Soap Operas Today
- From Daytime to <i>Night Shift</i>
- “What the Hell Does TIIC Mean?”
- The Evolution of the Fan Video and the Influence of YouTube on the Creative Decision-Making Process for Fans
- Soaps for Tomorrow
- Soap Opera Critics and Criticism
- Hanging on by a Common Thread
- Perspective
- The Role of “The Audience” in the Writing Process
- The “Missing Years”
- <i>As the World Turns’</i> Luke and Noah and Fan Activism
- Constructing the Older Audience
- References
- Index
The Ironic and Convoluted Relationship Between Daytime and Primetime Soap Operas
The Ironic and Convoluted Relationship Between Daytime and Primetime Soap Operas
- Chapter:
- (p.119) The Ironic and Convoluted Relationship Between Daytime and Primetime Soap Operas
- Source:
- The Survival of Soap Opera
- Author(s):
Lynn Liccardo
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter focuses on the soap opera genre’s increasing incorporation of over-the-top and campy elements alongside the development of many classic storytelling traits in primetime. It argues that the decline of quality in soap opera narratives has been driven in part by the industry’s self-loathing. The idea that soap opera is something that needs to change in order to not be hated has become deeply embedded in daytime producers’ collective psyche during the past thirty years.
Keywords: soap operas, plots, campy, storytelling, primetime television
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Daytime Budget Cuts
- Agnes Nixon and Soap Opera “Chemistry Tests”
- Giving Soaps a Good Scrub
- The Way We Were
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Growing Old Together
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Of Soap Operas, Space Operas, and Television’s Rocky Romance with the Feminine Form
- The Ironic and Convoluted Relationship Between Daytime and Primetime Soap Operas
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Preserving Soap History
- Did the 2007 Writers Strike Save Daytime’s Highest-Rated Drama?
- “The Rhetoric of the Camera in Television Soap Opera” Revisited
- It’s Not All Talk
- Guiding Light
- The Evolution of the Production Process of Soap Operas Today
- From Daytime to <i>Night Shift</i>
- “What the Hell Does TIIC Mean?”
- The Evolution of the Fan Video and the Influence of YouTube on the Creative Decision-Making Process for Fans
- Soaps for Tomorrow
- Soap Opera Critics and Criticism
- Hanging on by a Common Thread
- Perspective
- The Role of “The Audience” in the Writing Process
- The “Missing Years”
- <i>As the World Turns’</i> Luke and Noah and Fan Activism
- Constructing the Older Audience
- References
- Index
