Time and the Significance of the Rural in a British Soap Opera

Bibliographic Data

ID4356061
AuthorsCharmaine Mceachern (corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume2
Issue1
Pages7-28
Publication date1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x93002001002
OpenAlexW2032222588
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited14

Treating soap as a woman's genre highlighted the role of time in constituting the fictional world as co-extensive with that of the viewers. This paper examines the construction of the everyday in a British soap opera Emmerdale Farm, now Emmerdale, revealing temporal dimensions which also produce a sense of difference. The construction of rural time overarches the everyday and suffuses it with meaning. The serial's world is shown to be both same and different, Self and Other, constructing two orientations for resistance rather than one, as suggested in most soap literature

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Everyday life · Literature · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Opera · Resistance (ecology · SOAP · Sociology · World Wide Web · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy

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