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MORE LIVES TO LIVE?:
ARCHIVING AND REPURPOSING THE DAYTIME SOAP OPERA
by
Mary Jeanne Wilson
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(CRITICAL STUDIES)
August 2012
Copyright 2012 Mary Jeanne Wilson
Object Description
| Title | More lives to live ?: archiving and repurposing the daytime soap opera |
| Author | Wilson, Mary Jeanne |
| Author email | maryjeannewilson@gmail.com;mjwilson1@hotmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Cinema-Television (Cinema Critical Studies) |
| School | School of Cinematic Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-06-18 |
| Date submitted | 2012-08-11 |
| Date approved | 2012-08-13 |
| Restricted until | 2012-08-13 |
| Date published | 2012-08-13 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | McPherson, Tara |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Gambrell, Alice Seiter, Ellen |
| Abstract | The soap opera genre is an extremely important text in early feminist television criticism, yet the physical archiving of the programs is extremely problematic for academic archives and has instead been taken on by female fans that have created their own archives of the programs, which they circulate within their own distinctive fan communities. Personal fan archives spotlight women’s work in preserving popular history as opposed to traditional official historical pathways. This dissertation argues that the history of the soap opera genre has been preserved largely by female fan cultures rather than “official” or academic avenues. By researching both official and unofficial television soap opera archives, this project examines the disconnect that often exists between official historical repositories and fan based historical collections when dealing with popular culture texts. The final component of this dissertation explores the possibilities for soap opera archives in the future and how they may offer insights into the changing television landscape. Specific soap opera texts suffered a kind of erasure from television history by never airing more than once, but the massive expansion of digital cable and satellite systems offers the possibility of rerunning soap operas on boutique cable channels such as SOAPnet. I examine how the advent of rerunning soaps may change the terms in which we have previously studied soap operas and how this phenomenon points towards questions surrounding the future of syndication for the growing number of current television programs that depend upon their serial narrative format. |
| Keyword | soap operas; archiving; fan studies; feminism; television |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Wilson, Mary Jeanne |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-WilsonMary-1153.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | MORE LIVES TO LIVE?: ARCHIVING AND REPURPOSING THE DAYTIME SOAP OPERA by Mary Jeanne Wilson A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CRITICAL STUDIES) August 2012 Copyright 2012 Mary Jeanne Wilson |
