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  How to (Not) End a Soap

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  Christine Becker University of Notre Dame

  February 13, 2012

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  after learning that her beloved soap had already filmed its last episode. She then dreamed herself and ...
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  Can This Soap Be Saved?

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  Elana Levine

  February 14, 2012

  9 comments

  Can This Soap Be Saved? women General Hospital Future of Soap Opera daytime TV Curator's Note  With Katie Couric's syndicated talk show poised to take over General Hospital 's time slot on a substantial number of ABC affiliaties come Septem ...
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  Hypermasculinity in Soaps

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  Sam Ford Massachusetts Institute for Technology

  Tuesday, February 14, 2012 — 2:21 pm

  jokes (I think, for instance, of Stuart Damon's run on ATWT as a mob boss as a great in-joke on ...
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  EastEnders

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  Christine Becker University of Notre Dame

  Tuesday, February 14, 2012 — 5:06 pm

  half-hour running time is a very significant difference (perhaps akin to the differing episode volumes in US ...
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  Love and AIDS in the Afternoon

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  Cassandra Belek TV Industry Professional

  February 15, 2012

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  discovered he had contracted AIDS from a previous relationship. Robin learned she was HIV positive shortly ... Soaps do run the risk of misrepresenting issues. Characters with cancer are suddenly pushed to the ...
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  Sandy, I was 9 years old when

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  Cassandra Belek TV Industry Professional

  Wednesday, February 15, 2012 — 8:49 pm

  educational impact on me. Nine year olds don't exactly learn about HIV and AIDS in school, so this was my ...
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  The Trouble with Context in Archiving Soaps' Pivotal Moments

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  Sam Ford Massachusetts Institute for Technology

  February 16, 2012

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  of Soap Opera As the World Turns Curator's Note As a number of long-running U.S. soap operas are ... the soap. For fans who watched the original run and could fill in the gaps, the episodes were ... know was her father; and that her mother had known she was adopted. Rod learned who his daughter ...
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  The archival dilemma

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  Elana Levine

  Monday, February 20, 2012 — 3:34 am

  as a whole. And when you CAN watch them all, as in the full run of Dark Shadows on DVD, it's ...
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  Truly Digital Comics

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  Mark Waid Writer/Editor/Publisher

  February 21, 2012

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  I are constantly learning more about what does and doesn’t work with digital. Yet without resorting to ... turned. And we’re only just beginning to learn. I encourage my artists to break borders figuratively and ...
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  Meanwhile is Big but not Boundless

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  Mark Sample George Mason University

  February 22, 2012

  3 comments

  case of Meanwhile, what lessons can other creators and scholars of both print and digital comics learn ...

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