thanks for your response to my soap opera query, Jeremy Butler!
 
You know, it's a small world! I happen to be one of the German
colleagues Ellen Seiter has been working with on what you call a
mammoth soap opera study. The book you are referring to is _Remote
Control: Television, Audiences, and Cultural Power_, edited by Ellen,
myself and two others colleagues and published by Routledge in 1989.
The paperback edition will be out shortly. As you can guess from the
title, the book is not only about U.S. soaps but about television in
general.
 
My query resulted from the fact that now, after having been involved
in other projects, I would like to do some further work on soap
operas, but that I've not been able to keep in touch with the most
recent research.
 
I certainly will spread the news about your list here in Europe. The
problem is, however, that the medium of email etc. is not quite as
well-known and available as it is in the US.
 
Hans
 
     Hans Borchers
     University of Tuebingen
     American Studies Department
     Wilhelmstrasse 50
     7400 Tuebingen
     Federal Republic of Germany
 
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