On Sun, 24 Mar 91 10:05:38 +0100 H. Borchers said: >To me as an American studies person with an interest in media studies >SCREEN-L is a boon. It'll help me to stay in touch, even though I >live and work in Germany. Thanks for the initiative, Jeremy Butler! > Glad to help out, Hans. Please spread the word about SCREEN-L around German and Europe, won't you? >I'm particularly interested in the aspect of production analysis. >Have there been any important publications since Michael J. >Intintoli's book _Taking Soap Operas Seriously_ (1984)? > Allow me somewhat immodestly to suggest: Jeremy G. Butler, "Notes on the Soap Opera Apparatus: Televisual Style and AS THE WORLD TURNS," CINEMA JOURNAL 25, no. 3 (spring 1986): 53-70. This piece mostly focuses on visual style in soaps and its function in meaning production. Also, I know that Ellen Seiter has been working with two German (!) colleagues on a mammoth soap opera study (stressing audience research from a non-social science perspective). I don't have the title in front of me though. Can anyone else fill in the details? Also, E. Ann Kaplan's anthology, REGARDING TELEVISION (LA: AFI Monograph series, 1983) has bits and pieces on soaps; as does Robert C. Allen's collection, CHANNELS OF DISCOURSE (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press). I'm not in my office so I can't give you more information just now. Let me know if you'd like more. ---------- Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. --Malcolm X ---------- | | Bitnet : JBUTLER@UA1VM | | Jeremy G. Butler - - - - - - - - - - | Internet : [log in to unmask] | | | GEnie : J.BUTLER27 | | | | Telecommunication & Film Dept * The University of Alabama * Tuscaloosa |