Coronation Street, Neighbours, Shortland Street: Localness and Universality in the Primetime Soap

Television & New Media

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 370-382

  Dunleavy, Trisha ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

biculturalism; commercialization; community; conventionality; deregulation; ethnic diversity; exportability; fast turnaround format; flagship; genre; hybrid; internationalization; localness; market fragmentation; network; Northern realism; primetime; public service; ratings; reality docusoap; social realism; strip soap; supersoap; symbolic importance; team writing; transmission quota; universality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998075604     PISSN: 15274764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527476405279858     Document Type: Article

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