The study assessed scriptwriters’ perception of use of soap opera for agricultural information dissemination in South-western Nigeria. A total of 30 scriptwriters were interviewed using questionnaire Data were analysed using frequencies, percentages, means, Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) and linear regression at p=0.05. Findings reveal t...
Este trabalho discute aspectos da representação de personagens idosos na telenovela e sua relação com a aposentadoria, invalidez e dependência financeira. Analisa-se A dona do pedaço, telenovela de 2019 realizada pela TV Globo, no momento que se aprovava uma ampla reforma no sistema previdenciário. É a telenovela com o maior número de atores idosos...
This article ponders over the gender notions of women in the soap operas. La Candidata, a famous Mexican soap opera, is used in this study because it is an uncommon example of a show, presented to the Mexican television, that portrays how men use the Mexican political system to preserve a kleptocratic government, negotiate with the drug trafficking...
Abstract: This article provides some thoughts on how serialized fiction may be utilized to reconstruct history. More specifically, it considers how some television series have helped to make a re-reading of past Spanish society by focusing on female characters. Three pieces of historical fiction were thoroughly analyzed from a semantic perspective....
L’article traite, dans l’ordre, de l’inceste dans quelques mythes zoroastrien, égyptien, puis grec, pour finir avec des configurations parentales de l’Ancien Testament et du monde contemporain. Ces mythes ne se limitent pas à exprimer et rendre publique la prohibition de l’inceste ; il semblerait que les transgressions à la règle qu’ils permettent,...
In everyday conversation and in the social networks, we may come across the term cult in reference to people, places, movies or television programs. In this paper, we propose a few conceptualizations about the notion of cult TV, applied to Brazilian television fiction, and particularly soap operas. The first section focuses on the theoretical dialo...
La telenovela juvenil Aliados marca un punto de inflexión en la ficción argentina de estas características por su carácter innovador desde la perspectiva del concepto de emisión multiplataforma así como por el carácter comprometido y de denuncia social con el que se pretende, a través de la ficción, que los jóvenes tomen conciencia de los principal...
This paper assumes that in Brazil the soap opera is a cross-cultural product that constitutes an important part of the social stage. This fact implies that the melodramatic tales that populate the everyday experience of Brazilians are a constituent part of their worldview. It also assumes that the routine of viewing and commenting on the arguments ...
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This thesis investigates three terms of endearment in soap operas, namely honey, sweetheart and darling. The purpose is to determine how these terms are used and in what context. 200 tokens were taken from the Corpus of American Soap Operas which contains 10 different soaps. The results indicate that more women utilize terms of endearment overall i...
