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Apr.11.2013
to henry jenkins and sam ford...
last week, in his introduction to my q&a with sam, "as the world stopped turning: a conversation with lynn liccardo about soap operas," henry noted,
I have often acknowledged that fans are the true experts on popular culture: their passionate...
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Mar.31.2013
As the World Turns might never have existed if Procter & Gamble had allowed Irna Phillips to expand Guiding Light from 15 minutes to a half-hour in 1955. Irna didn't want a bigger cast or more story; what she believed was "that better story and characterization could be developed in the half-...
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Dec.20.2012
became a sin of commission...
Back in 2009, I had just begun researching the life of Irna Phillps, soap opera's single mother, when I came across an article about her in the now-defunct publication, The Common Review, titled "Imperial Soap Opera," by Chicago writer, Les White.
Six paragraphs into...
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Dec.15.2012
Officially, this short piece I wrote about Irna Phillips is part of the January-February issue of Harvard Magazine. But, since the issue went online yesterday, here an early look.
http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/01/vita-irna-phillips
The article is a compressed version of the preface I wrote for "...
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Sep.17.2012
not a verb...
a place to post what i've written rather than something i do on a regular basis.
which is one way of explaining why i've been silent these past several months. back in march, i mentioned that i was collecting some of my essays on as the world turns into an ebook. at the time, i...
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Mar.21.2012
doesn’t mean I haven’t been working...
But, while I’m excited to be collecting some of my Red Room essays on As the World Turns into an e-book, the truth is that I’ve been having difficult time writing about the current state of serialized storytelling, though certainly not for lack of available...
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Nov.10.2011
On Saturday, I'll be speaking on "The Futures of Serialized Storytelling" at "The Futures of Entertainment" conference at MIT. The panel is more focused on discussion than formal presentation. But I was asked to prepared a brief introduction, posted belong.
I'll be addressing the impact the move of...
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Jul.07.2011
I was recently interviewed for the Australian radio news show, Future Tense (listen here, about halfway in). The topic was soap opera as a force for social change. I had hoped the show would have room for my longstanding concerns about the ramifications when fans point to the importance attached to...
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May.09.2011
Fans of All My Children and One Life to Live are certainly not letting their shows go quietly into the good night. And they’ve been quite savvy about their tactics – targeting advertisers. Shortly after last month’s announcement, Hoover pulled ALL their advertising from ABC (and likely sold a...
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Mar.14.2011
When Irna Phillips died in 1973, the final pages of her unfinished memoir, All My Worlds described the 1964 creation of Another World. After her death, the book contract with the publisher was cancelled, and according to Irna’s daughter, Katherine, “all known copies of the manuscript were...
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