Verlag:
Springer International Publishing AG, Cham
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Images -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Soap Operas and Audiences of Women -- Gender, Nationalism, Diasporas and Soap Operas -- Sri Lankan Women, Gender and Nation -- Soap...
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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Images -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Soap Operas and Audiences of Women -- Gender, Nationalism, Diasporas and Soap Operas -- Sri Lankan Women, Gender and Nation -- Soap Operas and Cultural Capital -- Field Sites: Sri Lanka and Australia -- Colombo -- Melbourne -- The Participants -- Strangely Familiar: Positionalities in the Field and Power Relations -- Trope of Return -- As a Feminist Media Maker -- Being a Conscious Fan of Megas -- Trust and Fieldwork with Women -- Writing the Ethnographic Text -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Producing Meanings in a Soap Opera: Making Appropriate Femininities -- The Development of Sri Lankan Mega Teledramas -- The Funding Model of the Mega Teledramas -- The Mega Formula and Class Distinctions of the Lovers -- Closure in the Megas -- The Imagined Audience and Self-Censorship -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Soap Operas, Women and the Nation -- Care and Women's Television Spaces -- Cooking in the Television Space -- Working from Home -- Meanings of Womanhood in Megas -- Women Who Transgress -- Good Mothers and Sacrifices -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Soap Operas and Long-Distance Audiences -- A Sense of Community -- The Teledrama Club: A Place to Talk -- Cultural Cacophony in the Diasporic Space -- Women's Friendships and the Teledrama Club -- Belonging at Home -- 'I Don't Understand Australian' -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Gender, Media, Migration and Culture: An Intersectional Conclusion -- Nationalist Meanings and Cultural Capital -- Women's Care Spaces of Leisure -- Soap Opera Cultures in the Digital Era -- The Ethnographic Effort -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
