- 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
Preserving Soap History
Preserving Soap History
What Will It Mean for the Future of Soaps?
- Chapter:
- (p.140) Preserving Soap History
- Source:
- The Survival of Soap Opera
- Author(s):
Mary Jeanne Wilson
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter examines the state of soap opera collections in three major U.S. television archives: the University of California Los Angeles Film & Television Archive; the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound division; and the Paley Center for Media. Exploring the relationship of each archive with the soap opera genre shows not only how these institutions have and will continue to shape soap history, but also what these issues of preservation and the loss of soap history might tell us about the future of soaps.
Keywords: soap opera collections, television archives, University of California, Library of Congress, Broadcasting, Recorded Sound, Paley Center, preservation
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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
