Television soap operas
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Television soap operas
- When subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical and/or form subdivisions, this heading is used for works about television soap operas.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008003359
- info:lc/authorities/sh2008003359
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2008003359#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Soap operas
- Soap operas, Television
- Telenovelas
Broader Terms
Earlier Established Forms
- Soap operas
Sources
- found: Moving image materials, 1988 (Soap operas: use for fictional serials broadcast on television and usually dealing with domestic themes of a highly emotional nature; UF Television serials; BT Serials; RT Melodrama)
- found: Moving image genre-form guide via WWW, April 25, 2008 (soap opera: fictional television series which focus on the events in the lives of a cast of recurring characters, presented in a serial fashion. Plots often center on romances between the characters, but can include adventure, intrigue, or the supernatural. The endings of each program are normally unresolved or only partially resolved, encouraging the viewer to anticipate what may happen in the next episode)
- found: Marx, H. Narrative and soap opera : a study of selected South African soap operas, 2007.
- found: 2009042546: Telenovelas, 2009: CIP galley (telenovela; soap opera)
LC Classification
- PN1992.8.S4
General Notes
- When subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical and/or form subdivisions, this heading is used for works about television soap operas.
Change Notes
- 2008-04-25: new
- 2009-11-20: revised
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