{"id":75,"date":"2009-12-11T00:39:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T17:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=75"},"modified":"2009-12-24T04:32:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T21:32:36","slug":"as-the-world-turns-as-the-earth-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"As The World Turns \/ As the Earth Turns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Another soap opera, <em>As the World Turns<\/em>,<em> <\/em>has been cancelled. \u00a0Soap operas are interesting as a narrative form, and a lot of good critical work has been done on them by feminist scholars. \u00a0My favorite analysis is by Laura Stempel (written as Laura Stempel Mumford), <em>Love and Ideology in the Afternoon. <\/em>And there are many other essay collections, articles in journals, and full-length analyses. \u00a0But, in recent years the soap opera as a specific format has been replaced by dramas with continuing narratives, like <em>The Closer<\/em> or <em>Gray&#8217;s Anatomy. <\/em>Spanish speakers have long had <em>telenovelas, <\/em>which unlike US soap operas have a set ending &#8212; though they may take many episodes to get there. \u00a0US attempts at English language night-time series that were structured like the <em>telenovelas <\/em>weren&#8217;t successful. \u00a0Perhaps attention spans just aren&#8217;t geared toward such narratives any more? \u00a0And yet, long running novel series do seem to maintain loyal audiences&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anyway, years and years ago, FD was interviewing for a job in Maine and was being taken through a library of Maine women writers&#8217; papers. \u00a0The guide said that <em>As the World Turns<\/em> (a very popular soap at the time &#8212; FD remembers a student enthusiastically explaining that ATWT was so good because &#8220;the Snyder family has more members than some other soaps, and they aren&#8217;t the only family on the show&#8221;) was based on a novel by Gladys Hasty Carroll, <em>As the Earth Turns. <\/em>I haven&#8217;t read the Hasty novel, but based on the reviews, I&#8217;m a little skeptical. \u00a0There is a farm family, and some domestic drama, but other than that there weren&#8217;t many connections between the two, at least in the 1980s -1990s when I was aware of the plot lines. \u00a0But the novel was very popular, was made into a play and a movie, and has attracted some scholarly attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another soap opera, As the World Turns, has been cancelled. \u00a0Soap operas are interesting as a narrative form, and a lot of good critical work has been done on them by feminist scholars. \u00a0My favorite analysis is by Laura Stempel (written as Laura Stempel Mumford), Love and Ideology in the Afternoon. And there are many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}