The Age of Melodramatic Miniseries: When Glamour Ruled on Television, 1980-1995

Glamour, power, champagne breakfasts in satin sheets--welcome to television's most dazzling and overlooked genre: women-centric melodrama miniseries...
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Author: Scott Humphries
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Language: English
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The Age of Melodramatic Miniseries: When Glamour Ruled on Television, 1980-1995 by Humphries, Scott

The Age of Melodramatic Miniseries: When Glamour Ruled on Television, 1980-1995

€93,78

The Age of Melodramatic Miniseries: When Glamour Ruled on Television, 1980-1995

€93,78
Author: Scott Humphries
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Glamour, power, champagne breakfasts in satin sheets--welcome to television's most dazzling and overlooked genre: women-centric melodrama miniseries of the 1980s and 1990s. Decades before Real Housewives, rags-to-riches fantasies depicting strong women overcoming tragedy to take charge of their destinies were a big hit with TV audiences.

Reflecting the "greed is good" ethos of the day and encoded with feminist messaging, these glitzy, often camp stories depicted statuesque superwomen facing off with square-jawed men in boardrooms and bedrooms. This book explores the shows that epitomized the prime-time soap era and gave us such memorable scenes as Stefanie Powers trading lovers with her twin sister, Joan Collins fighting Nazis in haute couture and Phoebe Cates demanding, "Which one of you bitches is my mother?"



Author: Scott Humphries
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 03/17/2023
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.92h x 6.85w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9781476691626

About the Author
Scott Humphries is an aficionado of melodrama, especially the "trashy" kinds of popular literature, film and television from the 1980s. He has degrees in English literature and urban planning and lives in Canberra, Australia.

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