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New VHS. This is the second full-length motion picture feature based on the popular television soap-opera/horror melodrama Dark Shadows.

New VHS. John Candy plays Jack Gable, a soap-opera writer who finds himself trapped inside his own television program with a magic typewriter in this toothless comedy.

New VHS. Perhaps the definitive Douglas Sirk production, Written on the Wind is Soap Opera Deluxe.

New VHS. A star-studded cast enlivens this glossy soap opera, based on a novel by Rona Jaffe.

New VHS. Lana Turner takes the lead in the seventh film version of Alexandre Bisson's glossy soap opera.

New VHS. Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the trade: Warner Bros., Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, director Irving Rapper, and screenwriter Casey Robinson.

New VHS. June (Beryl Reid) is an actress who portrays the popular Sister George character in a widely viewed British soap opera.

New VHS. In the comedic farce Soapdish, the behind-the-scenes lives of several soap opera actors are just as melodramatic as what is on the screen.

New DVD. Based on Arthur Hailey's best-selling novel, Airport is more or less a soap opera, set in a major urban airport and on an airplane, that accidentally became the blueprint for a slew of big-budget disaster movies in the 1970s, including three sequels to this one alone.

Television Soaps Cultural Studies Paperback, 128 pages, 40 B&w Photographs Chrysalis Books London, UK ISBN 0713465093 Dimensions in millimetres: 234 x 156 Dimensions in inches: 9.21 x 9.21 By Richard Kilborn (Lecturer, Film and Media Studies, University of Stirling) This study of television soaps as an international phenomenon is part of the "Cultural Studies" series. Television soaps are a major broadcasting phenomenon with international significance. This book examines soaps from a number of different perspectives, giving examples from soaps of all nationalities. It examines television soaps, their history and technical conventions, the version of reality they present and the aspect of viewer-interaction they produce. This book is designed to be of interest to students of cultural and media studies, communications, media and sociology as well as to the general reader interested in this area of study.