Soap Operas – Sociology Of The Media And Popular Culture

Traditional soap opera dialogue is not unlike the pop-artist Roy Lichtenstein’s stylised magnification of the commonplace in his satirical paintings of the 1960’s. Coupled with Lichtenstein’s oft-considered triteness of relationships, which is duplicated in soap operas, both have their critics that regard them high art or inferior pop art. Soap operas provide mass entertainment for … Read more