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Letter "S" » soap opera
«Those terrible rows over who inherits what are not restricted to novels, soap operas or the families of the rich.»
«Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.»
Author: C. Wright Mills
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«No soap opera has so engrossingly captured the wondrous banality of the human condition.»
«A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.»
Author: Northrop Frye
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«The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.»
Author: Stefan Kanfer
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«If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.»