Lea Weller Ba

Soap Opera: Realism, Spectatorship and the Female Audience Lea Weller Ba

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Sociology - Gender Studies, grade: A, University of Derby, course: BA in Sociology and Film and Television Studies, language: English, abstract: The soap opera is classed as a woman's genre in which a fictional discourse of current affairs is discussed as speculated gossip. Charlotte Brunsdon (1995, 1997) has stated that the British soap opera has specific conventions, which make it a soap opera. Realism in a soap opera reflects the issues that are evident in society today and recognised by a female audience, allowing the viewer to connect with specific plots and characters. Brunsdon had become interested in the sudden intriguing criticisms of the feminist critics who argued about how the representations of the personal home life became an intriguing object of study.