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2010 Ratings
Total Viewers (Compared to Last Week/Compared to Last Year)
- Y&R 5,103,000 (+17,000/-13,000)
- B&B 3,188,000 (-71,000/-111,000)
- DAYS 2,838,000 (-96,000/-148,000)
- GH 2,532,000 (-19,000/-114,000)
- AMC 2,481,000 (-79,000/-218,000)
- OLTL 2,314,000 (-112,000/-350,000)
- ATWT 2,308,000 (-160,000/-224,000) -- 9.7% drop from last year
http://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/35133-march-15-19-2010/
Readings
"Television and Zero-Degree Style"
- What are the main characteristics of soap opera's style of sound and image? And what significance do they have? In other words, what/how does style signify in terms of:
- Group 1: Sets? Lighting?
- Group 2: Multiple-camera production? In terms of how it looks on the screen, how does multiple-camera production differ from single-camera production?
- Groups 1 & 2: Dialogue? Music? How are these characteristics present (or not) in the scene from ATWT episode we viewed in class? How would you compare/contrast the sound in ATWT with that of the radio soap, Backstage Wife?
"'I'm Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV'"
- Group 3: How does Jean-Louis Comolli's notion of a "body too much" in historical film apply to the soap opera?
- Group 4: What is the "commutation test"? How does it apply to soap-opera recasting?
- All Groups: How might the commutation test be used with Humphrey Bogart's Charlie Allnut character in African Queen?
- All Groups: How do Lindsey Frost's character/performance signs differ from Meg Ryan's? What meaning does that difference connote?
- Groups 3 & 4: What makes Meg Ryan an atypical soap star?
- Groups 3 & 4: How does the position of soap actors resemble that of early-film actors?
Bibliography
- Jeremy G. Butler, "Television and Zero-Degree Style" in Television Style (New York: Routledge, in press), 55-120.
- Jeremy G. Butler, "'I'm Not a Doctor, But I Play One on TV': Characters, Actors, and Acting in Television Soap Opera," Cinema Journal 30.4 (1991): 75-91.
External links
- Soap Opera Illustrations
- "Television and Zero-Degree Style" illustrations
- ATWT alumni.
- Johanna Schneller, "Meg Ryan", Us Weekly, April 1998, pp. 50-54, 96.