Like sands through the hourglass: The changing fortunes of the daytime television soap opera

Beyond Prime Time: Television Programming in the Post-Network Era

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 36-54

  Levine, Elana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

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EID: 84894954019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203884508     Document Type: Chapter

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