{"product_id":"no-end-to-her-soap-opera-and-the-female-subject-paperback-1","title":"No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartha Nochimson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this incisive defense of a much-maligned genre, Nochimson demonstrates how soap opera validates an essentially feminine perspective, and responds to complex issues of women's desire and power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven though soap opera commands a vast and loyal audience, it has been trivialized by the mainstream media and even libeled as a form of pornography designed to keep women in their place. In this incisive defense of a much-maligned genre, Martha Nochimson demonstrates how soap opera validates an essentially feminine perspective and responds to complex issues of women's desires and power by creating strong, active female characters. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and feminist film criticism, Nochimson explores the ways in which soap opera has inverted the typical male-centered narrative characterized by a domineering, Oedipal father-son relationship that serves to control female energy. Instead, women in soap operas resist their stabilizing role in male hierarchies. In breaking with traditional narrative, soaps create a distinctly feminine, open-ended format capable of tolerating ambiguity and lack of resolution. Soap operas emerge as vessels of a subterranean female power and defy women's \"assigned\" place in male-designed social structures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is time, Nochimson argues, to take a fresh look at one of America's few original art forms. Anyone interested in television, American culture, and gender roles will find \u003ci\u003eNo End to Her\u003c\/i\u003e a startling and compelling read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombines an array of critical methodologies to come to terms with a culturally persuasive but vastly undervalued media form.The scholarship is quite extraordinary. . . . It is the author's working knowledge of the circumstances under which television soap opera is actually written and produced that makes her theoretical arguments so convincing. She does a fine job of interfusing philosophy with praxis.--David A. Cook, author of \u003ci\u003eHistory of Narrative Film\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe scholarship is quite extraordinary. . . . It deals with . . . its subject with both elegance and passion. . . . It illuminates a great deal about the way in which television soap opera is both produced and consumed . . . could be used quite handily as a text . . . in the same way Tania Modeleski's \u003ci\u003eThe Women Who Knew Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e is used.--David Cook, Emory University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombines an array of critical methodologies to come to terms with a culturally persuasive but vastly undervalued media form.The scholarship is quite extraordinary. . . . It is the author's working knowledge of the circumstances under which television soap opera is actually written and produced that makes her theoretical arguments so convincing. She does a fine job of interfusing philosophy with praxis.--David A. Cook, author of \u003ci\u003eHistory of Narrative Film\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The scholarship is quite extraordinary. . . . It deals with . . . its subject with both elegance and passion. . . . It illuminates a great deal about the way in which television soap opera is both produced and consumed . . . could be used quite handily as a text . . . in the same way Tania Modeleski's \u003ci\u003eThe Women Who Knew Too Much\u003c\/i\u003e is used.\"--David Cook, Emory University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha Nochimson\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at New York University and at Mercy College. Not content with a purely academic approach to her subject, she spent several years as a writer for \u003ci\u003eRyan's Hope, Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light, Loving\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSanta Barbara\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 237\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8.75 x 6.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 1993\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52710324732211,"sku":"9780520077713","price":62.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/SjRDZWVvcGlwWk5zQzBIalNRei9MUT09_1705a952-5e8a-4e48-a0f1-55cfbfb812e1.webp?v=1763488882","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/no-end-to-her-soap-opera-and-the-female-subject-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}