Soap Opera Research Articles

1988

1988 Jennifer Haigh (bio) In the winter of 1988, I saw New York City for the first time. I was nineteen, a freshman at a small, private college in Connecticut—expensive, but generous with scholarships—where I’d chosen, to the dismay of my hardworking parents, to study theater. I’d told them about my trip to the city, but not how I’d get there or with whom: a man named Alex Pappas, an associate professor of Dramatic Arts, who’d been my teacher for Stage Movement. Alex was the thing I most wanted to be, an actor. At my age he’d already appeared on a TV soap opera, a minor part that later turned into a major one. Film roles followed, though they weren’t films I’d heard of. We watched them together on videocassette, naked, in his bed. If it happened today, our affair would violate a half-dozen statutes in the University Code of Conduct, but in 1988—three years before Anita Hill—the rules had yet to be written. Still, Alex was cautious. He was about to go up for tenure, and his path was booby-trapped with human explosives that might go off at any moment: scheming colleagues, a crazy ex-wife prone to jealousy and unpredictable [End Page 136] rages. He thought it best to keep our relationship quiet, and I agreed, though this hurt my feelings and was difficult to do. Even more than I wanted to sleep with him, I wanted to talk about him, to make known to the wide world that he had chosen me. We drove into the city on a Friday afternoon. We’d be staying at his friend Christopher’s, Alex explained as we idled in traffic, a huffing bolus of cars and trucks crowding onto the Triborough Bridge. Christopher was out of town—for three weeks each month, he performed in a cabaret show on a Carnival Cruise ship—but Alex had a key to his apartment on Mott Street. The address meant nothing to me. “Is it near Central Park?” I asked stupidly—the only New York landmark I could think of. I had visions of Alex and me walking hand in hand, beyond the reach of campus gossip. “Not even close. Motherfucker,” he growled as a taxi swerved in front of us. ________ The weekend in the city was a late birthday present. Alex and I had been talking about it for months. That I would love New York was a foregone conclusion. The life I imagined for myself could unfold in no other place. Back home in Pennsylvania, I’d spent three summers doing community theater. The Saxon Valley Players specialized in affable comedies, Agatha Christie mysteries, and musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein. I played a French maid in Death on the Nile. I sang in the chorus of Flower Drum Song—like the rest of the all-white cast, in a black wig and heavy eyeliner that were supposed to make me look Asian. The Players were a mix of adults (Bob Whitehead, who owned [End Page 137] the local Ford dealership; Sally Devlin, the organist at the Lutheran church in town) and standouts from the high school drama club (a few handsome boys of ambiguous sexuality and a flock of plain girls who wore lots of makeup). These two groups were outwardly friendly but held certain opinions about each other. To us teenagers, the Bobs and Sallies were a cautionary tale, having squandered their youth and whatever talent they possessed on nothing jobs in a nowhere place. I can guess how they felt about us. We dressed in a way that set us apart from other kids—the boys in scarves and newsboy caps, the girls as if we’d just come from dance class, in leotards and long skirts. We were constantly performing for each other, in what we imagined to be Scottish or Southern or Cockney accents. We were excruciating. I expected the college theater department to be like the Saxon Valley Players, and in one respect it was: the beautiful boys, the self-conscious girls who loved them unrequitedly. I was comfortable with this...

Velho Chico: uma jornada intelectual rumo a uma poética mestiça

Este artigo pretende analisar a poética audiovisual articulada pelo diretor Luiz Fernando Carvalho na recente telenovela Velho Chico (2016). Compreendendo poética a partir de Bordwell (2008) que a define como um ramo de estudos do cinema voltado a manufatura audiovisual, isto é, a um entendimento sobre o processo de criação, produção e efeito. Entretanto, diferentemente de Bordwell cuja matriz conceitual gira em torno do cognitivismo, adotamos como ponto de partida as teorias sistêmicas de Edgar Morin, Mário Bunge, Ilya Prigogine e Jorge Vieira. Dessa forma, o texto centra-se, em primeiro lugar, no esclarecimento da organização sistêmica que molda a poética do audiovisual no que tange ao seu caráter colaborativo, isto é, vários agentes semióticos contribuindo na manufatura da obra, no caso a telenovela. Em segundo, é observado sua complexidade semântica com seus encontros e sincretismos sígnicos advindos de várias influências culturais e estéticas. Para em seguida, o artigo salientar que Velho Chico é, ao mesmo tempo, um ponto de chegada e um ponto de partida para círculo-evoluções sígnicas, isto é, para outros rincões sígnicos, fluindo, desaguando e se ramificando por outras vertentes, criando uma linguagem sinérgica e mestiça própria àquele universo ficcional. Por fim, o texto conclui que Velho Chico é uma jornada intelectual do diretor Luiz Fernando Carvalho na busca de um novo paradigma, uma poética audiovisual que acolha seus ideais estéticos: uno, múltiplo, complexo.

Netflix'in yerel orijinal dizilerinde alt yazı çevirisi: Hakan Muhafız kültürü muhafaza ediyor mu?

Recently online streaming platforms have facilitated the circulation of audiovisual products. Among these, Netflix reaches more than 130 million viewers around the world. In addition to a variety of American movies, TV shows, and documentaries, Netflix has started to offer local original series from Spain, Germany, Italy, and the U.K. In December 2018, Netflix released its first original series in Turkish entitled “The Protector”. Though Turkish soap operas have been drawing great interest around the world lately, a Turkish series produced for Netflix means reaching considerable number of viewers from different cultural backgrounds. The following descriptive study aims to examine English subtitles of “The Protector” in terms of cultural references to determine if the ‘source cultural tone’ is preserved or the meaning is brought closer to target culture for the sake of providing an audience friendly subtitling and whether the Timed Text Style Guide offered to subtitlers by Netflix affects the subtitling process. Results showed that cultural references were highly domesticated by the subtitler for the international audience and Timed Text Style Guide provided by Netflix was also seen to have a target language oriented approach while requiring improvements in certain translation choices. Future studies focusing on a comparative analysis of subtitles of this show in other languages and the subtitling of other local Netflix original series in other languages may provide a fruitful platform for the exchange on the issues discussed.

Villa-Lobos na teledramaturgia

Este artigo analisa os usos de composições do brasileiro Heitor Villa-Lobos nas telenovelas brasileiras. Partimos das minisséries A Muralha e Hoje é dia de Maria; e das novelas Amor, eterno amor e A lei do amor, e das composições usadas nessas obras audiovisuais. Assim como o uso do repertório sinfônico é comum em produções audiovisuais, a obra de Villa-Lobos aparece nessas produções e se mostra eficiente como trilha musical. As características do discurso musical do compositor foram aqui analisadas em relação às novelas e minisséries televisivas selecionadas, apoiadas na teoria das tópicas e da musemática, de Philip Tagg. Conclui-se que, devido às suas características intrínsecas, obra Villa-Lobos se amolda adequadamente à poética audiovisual, razão pela qual se faz presente para além das salas de concerto – para aonde foi inicialmente concebida.

Soap Opera Addictive Behaviour among Women Viewers in India

Media is an integral part of society and it plays vital role for inculcating information. In the course of accomplishing its duties and functions, media, especially television influence on society relatively depending on the audience it reaches. Soaps have a predominant female audience. Some soaps do include men viewers but some social researchers pointed, women are considering most peculiar viewers. They are emotionally attached and value particular soaps in their personal and domestic life. Today people are leading a fast life. People should have some kind of recreation in their get relation of their physical and psychological balances of life. So, different people have different activities to spend their leisure.

Lights Off, Spot On: Carbon Literacy Training Crossing Boundaries in the Television Industry

Proclaimed the “greenest television programme in the world,” the award-winning soap opera Coronation Street is seen as an industry success story. This paper explores how the integration of carbon literacy training (CLT) led to a widespread transformational change of practice within Coronation Street. Using the theoretical lens of Communities of Practice (CoP), this study examines the nature of social learning and the enablers and barriers to change within the organization. Specifically, how boundary spanning practices, objects and people led to the transformation on both a personal and group level. Based on a qualitative analysis of 22 interviews with Heads of Departments and other staff, the paper argues that CLT is a boundary practice which has evolved into a boundary spanning CoP. The importance of infrastructures supporting boundary objects and practices is highlighted as reinforcers of the CLT, both as a boundary object and a community, with the “ultimate” boundary spanning object being the show. A significant enabler in social learning and change in practice is the creation of discursive and creative space, both within CoP and across the boundaries. Findings also highlight the role of “self” in the process of social learning and organizational change. Distinct patterns emerged in the relationship between self-identity, social learning and change across a range of boundary objects, practices and communities both in the CLT and CoP. This suggests that in a diverse social learning setting such as CLT there are different transformational catalysts within the CoP and these identities can influence how knowledge is translated into practice.

The Greek Fandom of Turkish Soap Operas and the Tourism Industry: Traveling through Borders, Realities, and Identities

The Greek Fandom of Turkish Soap Operas and the Tourism Industry: Traveling through Borders, Realities, and Identities

Woman Searching for Family Nafkah in Islamic Economic Views

Abstract: This article focuses on the discussion of Islamic and economic views on women making a living for families (husbands and children). This phenomenon is already popular in Indonesian society, with many female workers (TKW) making a living or working abroad for the sake of family survival (husband and children), this is also reinforced by soap opera shows on private national television titled “The world is upside down” as a manifestation of the socio-economic facts of the Indonesian family today which is visualized as soap operas. This is a big question mark for socio-economic observers and practitioners of sakinah or Muslim families. In general, the main task of making a family living in Islam is assigned to the man (husband). Although it is justified that women (wives) earn a living (working) to help the family economy if the husband’s income is insufficient for family needs, provided that the woman in work does not bring shame, slander and harm to herself and the continuity of her household, and can maintain her honor by always covering aurat and keep away from things that produce salaries are not halal (haram). So a woman who is a family breadwinner in the view of Islamic economics is permitted, but that as an alternative to maintaining survival and domestic life with her husband and children, also does not violate her nature as a wife and mother for her children. This analysis arises because economic activity is a social activity, so the social is very closely related to the economy, also the Islamic economy and ocioeconomic family in Islam.

Implicações da globalização e da padronização linguística nos padrões de legendagem e o dialeto visual como estratégia para legendar a variação linguística

Globalização e padronização caminham juntas. A padronização linguística é um elemento importante para garantir a unidade de uma língua e, no caso do espanhol, é uma característica fortemente presente nas políticas linguísticas e na consciência dos falantes. O s. XXI tem vivido uma mudança importante com a construção de uma nova política linguística pan-hispânica e o planejamento de uma norma pluricêntrica do espanhol na qual nenhuma variedade deve se impor sobre à s demais. Mas, apesar do discurso institucionalizado em favor da unidade do espanhol e de seu fortalecimento como língua de globalização, continuam sendo produzidas traduções diferentes para o espanhol peninsular e o americano, conhecido no meio da tradução como espanhol neutro: uma variedade que se propõe a evitar usos excessivamente localizados. Esta variedade, utilizada também nos noticiários e em algumas telenovelas produzidas para difusão internacional com a intenção de abranger o maior número de espectadores, surgiu nas comunidades da prática como uma construção a muitas mãos desenvolvida de maneira empírica por tradutores e comunicadores sem o amparo de uma padronização oficial. O espanhol neutro tem reconhecimento oficial em vários países, mas ainda apresenta lacunas importantes que precisam ser problematizadas. Além da padronização linguística, a globalização e os avanços tecnológicos têm provocado importantes mudanças nos padrões de legendagem existentes para as diferentes línguas. Este trabalho apresenta um breve histórico dessa evolução e analisa alguns exemplos de tradução para discutir as repercussões negativas que o excessivo apego à norma padrão e ao espanhol neutro pode ter no poder expressivo das legendas de filmes e séries, resultando numa linguagem asséptica que, além de apagar as marcas da oralidade, neutraliza traços dos personagens que dizem respeito a seu estado psicológico, idade, gênero e procedência geográfica e social. Também é trazida à tona a necessidade de um novo olhar para lidar com a legendagem de palavrões e de filmes multilíngues e, por fim, são exploradas as possibilidades criativas do dialeto visual como estratégia para legendar a variação linguística.

Queering Family Dialogue through Entertainment Education: Narratives from Minority Sexual Identity Youth

This article examines how minority sexual identity plots in prime-time South African soap operas queered the family talk. It further explores how young people with (un)disclosed minority sexual identities navigate within these discursive or affirming dialogs that follow. Nine (9) participants (3 lesbian and 6 gay students) shared their narratives through one-to-one interviews on family dialogs after viewing minority sexual identities scenes in popular soap operas. The participants were selected through convenient and purposive sampling. Findings shows while minority sexual identities was a silent topic at home and marked with repression, repulsion, and threads in some families, other families appreciated the visibility, openness and realities of the contemporary South Africa. Three themes were identified. They are (1) normalization, heteronormativity & (self) regulation, (2) affirming heterosexual reactions and (3) navigating the family relations beyond the soap operas. Soap operas should be strongly considered as a pedagogical tool in various learning environments to solicit discussion about sexual diversity.

<em>El tiempo entre costuras</em>: análisis contrastivo entre la subtitulación profesional y la de fansubbing al chino

Este artículo aborda el fenómeno del fansubbing en China, centrándose en la traducción del español al chino, una combinación lingüística poco estudiada hasta el momento en subtitulación. El objetivo principal es hacer un análisis contrastivo entre la subtitulación profesional y la hecha por fansubbers del español al chino a partir de un estudio de caso. Para ello hemos tomado dos versiones diferentes de la traducción de la serie española El tiempo entre costuras: la profesional emitida por el canal nacional CCTV y otra realizada por el grupo de fansubbing YYeTs. En el análisis hemos examinado tanto elementos formales como traductológicos y hemos observado que las dos versiones presentan similitudes y diferencias, si bien no se puede establecer una tendencia clara en cuanto a normas de traducción en el eje de la domesticación y la extranjerización.

Soap storyline sends a powerful message about cervical screening

With love triangles, whodunnits and explosive storylines, it is easy to dismiss soap operas as a half-hour slice of escapism. But these shows can use drama to spread important health messages to the millions of people who tune in every week.

Personalized spoiler detection in tweets by using support vector machine

At present, numerous people watch prerecorded TV programs as daily leisure. Concerning soap operas or sports, the viewers may not want to be informed about the results before watching the programs; however, they may check tweets on devices, such as smartphones, some of which can accidentally include contents referring to spoilers. To avoid reading such contents, several approaches were proposed to detect spoilers in texts (both long and short ones), including tweets. In the study by Jeon et al. focused on detecting spoilers in tweets, only one person attached labels to tweets, and the labeled tweets were used to train detectors. The trained detector was tuned for one person and, therefore, could be unsuitable for others. A tweet published in the middle of a baseball game can be considered as a spoiler by some people and is not by others; therefore, a personalized detection method is preferred. However, to the best of our knowledge, none of the related studies has considered such a personalized approach. To address this problem, we propose a semi-supervised approach to detect spoilers in tweets using a Support Vector Machine (SVM) in which each user attaches labels to tweets. After that, SVM executes the same procedure for other unlabeled tweets through bootstrapping. To verify the suitability of the proposed approach to personalize detectors, we conducted an experiment in which two participants were asked to attach labels to tweets. The experimental results indicate that this approach is ef??icient for personalized detection based on the Mann-Whitney U test.

Distinct types of conservative attitudes mediate the link between media preference and presidential candidate endorsement

ABSTRACT Do mass media preferences help to shape specific political attitudes and voting preferences? In two studies, participants completed measures of media genre preferences, three distinct dimensions of political attitudes, and political candidate endorsement (Study 2 only). We found that higher liking of Active (e.g., action films, adventure books) and Masculine genres (e.g., sports TV, business books), and higher disliking of Cerebral (e.g., classical music, philosophy books) and Alternative genres (e.g., punk music, horror films) predicted endorsement of a dimension of conservatism that emphasizes libertarian independence. Preference for Communal genres (e.g., family films, soap opera TV) and dislike toward Alternative genres predicted endorsement of a second dimension of conservatism that emphasizes religious traditionalism. Preference for Communal, Active, and Masculine genres, and dislike toward Cerebral genres, predicted a third dimension of conservatism that emphasizes ethnic separateness. Study 2 found that these distinct dimensions of conservatism mediated the links between media preferences and endorsement for political candidates in the 2016 US election. Further analyses provided evidence against an alternative pathway in which media preferences mediate the link between conservatism and candidate endorsement. Taken together, these findings suggest that preference for distinct genres of media encourages distinct types of political attitudes.

المسلسلات الأجنبية في الفضائيات الكوردية ودورها قي تنمية الوعي لدى الشباب في إقليم كوردستان (المسلسلات الكورية نموذجاً) (دراسة ميدانية على عينة من طلبة معهد الفنون الجميلة في مدينة السليمانية)

The dubbing process for the Foreign Dramas by the Kurdish language became a serious phenomenon in the Kurdish satellite TV, especially in the past few years. It attracted a wide audience, especially young adolescents. And prepared by some breakthrough hostile to Kurdish culture and value coordinated by others remedy for the structural gaps and lapses have, as a result of climate which is brought into existence globalization and secretions variety dimensional, saturated value and cognitive effects bearing a strong identity of its elements. From here, the problem of this research is the ambiguity of their role in a series of developmental processes Kurdish awareness of young people and the extent of the impact that caused it. This research is important from the theme referred to above, which is still an important focus on the priorities of community knowledge, information and technical and popular and others, as well as it studies the few that deal with this kind of soap operas and effects of development on the awareness of the youth, which contributes to the enrichment of Kurdish Library and alert researchers new interesting its other aspects that have not been studied yet. This research as a description example aims to detect and confirm the type and importance of the information and knowledge provided by these serials for various community affairs and how they are displayed and interpreted, and to identify the motives of exposure receiver to those series and duration of time. This research is somewhat descriptive research, which is through the study of the facts associated with the variables in question and clarifies, targeting recognized indicators laxatives to understand its ties with other phenomena. To achieve the objectives of this research, and to invoke the curriculum survey which demonstrated suitability for this purpose as proven by many scientific researches, I realized many important results, including: The information offered by the Korean series showed by the Kurdish satellite TV in the Kurdistan Region is adequate information and relative value, community events and crises in general. Sufficiency of those series to provide explanations and public surface phenomena and economic crisis and none sank in detail the structural and influential. Creating those negative effects series with the relative majority of respondents to the concepts of democracy and public freedoms, taking into consideration the dissenting views that compete with such a majority in number. The existence of contradictory assertions and relatively neutral, towards a pseudo- interpretation of the Korean Series about the fairness of factional strife in society and immortality. The study, finally, sets some recommendations including: Follow-up young families for their children, especially adolescents and guiding them towards viewing main dramas. Kurdish interest in drama and the study develops and supports to bring it to the level of competition with foreign drama through productivity and up-gradation of art and technology.

Culturally adapted depression education and engagement in treatment among Hispanics in primary care: outcomes from a pilot feasibility study

BackgroundLow use of anti-depressant medication, poor doctor-patient communication, and persistent stigma are key barriers to the treatment of depression in Hispanics. Common concerns include fears about the addictive and harmful properties of antidepressants, worries about taking too many pills, and the stigma attached to taking medications and seeking mental health treatments. In 2014, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) funded the Depression Screening and Education: Options to Reduce Barriers to Treatment (DESEO) project to implement an education intervention designed to increase disease literacy and dispel myths about depression and its treatment among Hispanic patients thus reducing stigma and increasing treatment engagement.MethodsThe DESEO study utilized a one-group pretest-posttest design to assess the effects a culturally-adapted Depression Education Intervention’s (DEI) on depression knowledge, stigma, and engagement in treatment in a sample of 350 Hispanic primary care patients with depression. The DEI utilized a fotonovela, a health education tool available in English and Spanish that uses posed photographs, captions, and soap opera narratives to raise awareness about depression and depression treatments.ResultsParticipants reported significant decreases in depression symptoms and reported stigma about mental health care. Additionally, participants reported increased knowledge of depression yet greater negative perceptions about antidepressant medication. Finally, 89.5% of participants reported entering some form of treatment at follow-up.ConclusionsCulturally adapted depression education shows promise in increasing understanding of depression, decreasing stigma, and increasing treatment engagement among Hispanic patients in a community-based health center. Results have implications for practice in addressing common concerns about depression treatments which include fears about the addictive and harmful properties of antidepressants, worries about taking too many pills, and the stigma attached to taking psychotropic medications.Trial registrationThe study was retrospectively registered with www.clinicaltrials.gov: NCT02491034 July 2, 2015.

Gendered differences in the representation of men’s and women’s relationship to marriage and childbearing in business and economic contexts: A reading of the South African television soap opera Generations: The Legacy

abstractGenerations: The Legacy, a South African television soap opera, presents multi-layered representations of the daily lives of middle and upper class South Africans. It negotiates issues of culture, family dynamics, gender-based violence, abuse, business ethics, crime and generational wealth. The Broadcast Research Council (2019) reported that, in 2018, the programme had over eight million viewers in South Africa. Generations: The Legacy enjoys a daily 30-minute primetime slot on SABC 1, from 8pm, and it is broadcast internationally in Jamaica and India. Cultural and economic legacy dynamics form the narrative hub around which the story revolves, which is already apparent from the programme’s title. In the soap opera, male characters are represented as custodians of successful business leadership and as active participants in related socio-political dealings. Women, however, are represented as supportive participants in these business and economic dealings. The representation of women further suggests that women are incapable of independently and successfully participating in the generation of wealth. This article considers gender representations in the popular programme, with specific reference to themes around marriage and childbearing in business and economic contexts, and how these representations differ between male and female characters. In analysing the popular South African soap opera, this article will build on Connell’s (1987) concept of the gender order. The conclusion reached is that, although the programme realistically depicts the differentiated gendered roles of men and women in business and economic contexts, with marriage and childbearing as key contributors to the plot dynamic of such relationships, it fails to successfully challenge patriarchal perceptions of women’s rights and their roles in business and economic dealings.

DAMPAK SINETRON INDONESIA TERHADAP PERILAKU MASYARAKAT

This study aims to reveal how people's behavior after watching the soap opera Anak Langit and what are the factors that cause people's behavior to change after watching the soap opera Anak Langit. In addition, this study will also look at how violations that occur in Anak Langit soap operas are based on broadcasting regulations in Indonesia. This research will explore the existing problems using Cultivation Theory where this theory assumes that television exposure impacts on the community. This theory is based on Gerbner's thought which conveys that the continued exposure of the media will give an idea and influence on the perception of the viewer. That is, as long as viewers make contact with television they will learn about the world, change their perception of the world, learn to behave and people's values. This study uses qualitative methods, where researchers conduct literature studies, observations and interviews to approach and explore research problems. Based on this research it can be seen that the soap opera Anak Langit has a negative impact on some of its audience. This is because many violations occur, if guided by broadcasting regulations in Indonesia.

THE CORRELATION OF TELEVISION SHOW AND BULLYING BEHAVIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL OF MAHAPUTRA IN MAKASSAR

Introduction: Bullying is an experience that occurs when the helplessness persecuted by the others behaviour and afraid of the repected bad behaviour and ill do it is repeated. One of causes bullying behavior is a television show, this can occur because television show that is presented is very diverse, so that school children is free to watch their favorite television show. This study aimed to determine the relationship between television show with bullying behavior in student of class XI and XII in SMA Maha Putra Makassar. Method: This study using cross sectional method. The total study populations 130 and samples are 98 respondents with purposive sampling technique. Data analyzed were using the Chi-Square. Result: In this study showed that there is no relationship between television show with bullying behavior in student of class XI and XII in Maha Putra Senior High School Makassar. Conclusions: Level bullying dominant is low level with the bullying often is verbal bullying, and program often that watched is soap opera. Therefore, they are expected to do more introduce of bullying to students.

O Conflito como Fundamento do Drama

A partir da definição de Hegel de que o gênero dramático se estrutura a partir da colisão entre duas vontades, são examinadas formas artísticas contemporâneas de grande sucesso junto ao público, para corroborar a importância do conflito em suas estruturas, quais sejam: o filme de animação, o filme de suspense e a telenovela.