[April 22nd marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the king of primetime soap operas, Aaron Spelling. So this week I’ve AmericanStudied Spelling and other soap opera contexts, leading up to this crowd-sourced cliffhanger of a weekend post featuring the responses and thoughts of fellow SoapStudiers. Add yours in comments!]
Vaughn Joy seconds what I
tweeted in introducing the series, writing, “I 100% agree that Aaron
Spelling is one of the most influential Americans of the 20th
century.”
Rob Gosselin takes a quote from Tuesday’s
post, about “testing the mind of the viewer,” in a different
direction: “Wait until AI starts producing
television shows. It will not only test us, but it will find increasingly
effective ways to influence us. Right now we are just cattle for mass media. We
are about to become sheep.”
Other
SoapOperaStudying takes:
Georgina tweets, “I’ve loved soap operas since the time my mom plopped me
in the ‘playpen’ so she could watch General
Hospital. They covered all the hot button issues from rape and domestic
violence to AIDS with lots of amnesia and evil twins in between.” And she
shares this
article as well, as a “good opportunity to talk rape
pre-#metoo & soap operas during #SexualAssaultAwarenessMonth.”
&
StanYeahMan shares the work
of fellow SoapOperaStudier Will
McKinley.
Next
series starts Monday,
Ben
PS. What
do you think? Other soap opera contexts or stories you’d share?
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