CMST 3K03 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Gilmore Girls, Opera Experiment, Organize

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6: how fans can reclaim and imbue derided forms of popular culture with. Culture: how soap operas differ from other forms of pop cultural trash . Longevity average duration of us soap opera is 40 years. Seriality uninterrupted daily instalments; most soaps average 260 new episodes a year. Fans have lifelong relationships with soap operas that is unique (if not unprecedented) in commercial entertainment: relationship between soap opera fans and soap opera series vs. 6: how fan activism among soap opera fans used skills and networks instilled. More collegial relationship was developed with fans through publications of newsletters, staging of conventions etc. These forms of fan expression and organization that soap opera producers encouraged have been used and taken up by soap opera fans to practice various kinds of activism : how fan activism shows popular culture can politicize audiences and.