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Soap Operas Bibliography
BOOKS
Allen, Robert C. Speaking of Soap Operas. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. 1985Cantor, Muriel G. and Suzanne Pingree. The Soap Opera. Volume 12, The Sage COMMTEXT Series. Sage Publications, 1983.
Cassata, Mary and Thomas Skill. Life on Daytime Television: Tuning-In American Serial Drama. NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp. 1983.
Edmondson, Madeleine and David Rounds. The Soaps: Daytime Serials of Radio and TV. New York: Stein and Day. 1973.
Edmondson, Madeleine and David Rounds. From Mary Noble to Mary Hartman, The Complete Soap Opera Book. New York: Stein and Day. 1973.
Intintoli, Michael James. Taking Soaps Seriously, The World of Guiding Light. NY: Prager, 1984.
Lackman, Ron. Remember Radio. New York: G. P. Putnam's & Sons. 1970.
La Guardia, Robert. Soap World. New York: Arbor House, 1983.
Lazarsfeld, Paul F. and Frank Stanton. Radio Research, 1942-1943. Chapter 1, Daytime Serials. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. 1944.
Matelski, Marilyn J. The Soap Opera Evolution. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. 1988.
Museum of Television and Radio. Worlds Without End, The Art and History of the Soap Opera. New York: Harry N. Abrams. 1997.
Newcomb, Horace. TV: The Most Popular Art. Chapter 7, Soap Opera: Approaching the Real World. New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday. 1974.
Schemering, Christopher. Guiding Light: A 50th Anniversary Celebration. New York: Ballantine Books. 1986.
Schemering, Christopher. The Soap Opera Encyclopedia. New York: Ballantine Books. 1985.
Stedman, Raymond William. The Serials OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1987.
Wakefield, Dan. All Her Children. New York: Doubleday & Company. 1976.
West, Robert. The Rape of Radio. New York: Rodin Publishing Co. 1941. pp. 82-92.
ARTICLES
Alexander, Alison. "Adolescents' Soap Opera Viewing and Relational Perceptions." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Vol. 29. No. 3. Summer 1985. pp. 295-308.
Carveth, Rodney and Alison Alexander. "Soap Opera Viewing Motivations and the Cultivation Process." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Vol. 29. No. 3. Summer 1985. pp. 259-273.
Estep, Rhoda and Patrick T. Macdonald. "Crime in the Afternoon: Murder and Robbery on Soap Operas." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Vol. 29. No. 3. Summer 1985. pp. 323-331.
Greenberg, Bradley S. and Dave D'Alessio. "Quantity and Quality of Sex in Soaps." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Vol. 29. No. 3. Summer 1985. pp. 309-321.
Greenberg, Bradley S., Kimberly Neuendorf, Nancy Buerkel-Rothfuss and Laura Henderson. "The Soaps: What's On and Who Cares?" Journal of Broadcasting. Vol. 26. No. 2. pp. 519-535.
Lemish, Dafna. "Soap Opera Viewing in College: A Naturalistic Inquiry." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Vol. 29. No. 3. Summer 1985. pp. 275-293.
Nixon, Agnes E. "Coming of Age in Sudsville." Television Quarterly. Fall 1970. Vol. 9. No. 4. pp. 61-70.
Rouse, Morleen Getz. "Daytime Radio Programming for the Homemaker, 1926-1956." Journal of Popular Culture. Fall 1978. pp. 315-327.
Rubin, Alan M. "Uses of Daytime Television Soap Operas by College Students." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. Vol. 29. No. 3. Summer 1985. pp. 241-258.
Schroeder, Fred E. H., "Radio's Home Folks, Vic and Sade: A Study in Aural Artistry." Journal of Popular Culture. Fall 1978. pp. 253-264.
Stumpf, Charles K. “The Couple in the Little House, Halfway Up the Next Block, Vic and Sade.” The World of Yesterday October 1977. No. 13. pp. 49-53.
Willey, George A. "End of an Era: The Daytime Radio Serial." Journal of Broadcasting. Vol. 5. No. 2, Spring 1961. pp. 97-115.
Willey, George A. "The Soap Operas and The War." Journal of Broadcasting. Fall, 1963. Vol. 7. No. 4. pp. 339-352.
AUDIO RECORDINGS
The audio recordings listed below represent a partial list from our holdings. For a more comprehensive list, please search in our Audio Recordings database.- Mary Wood - au ac orig 2038
- Portia Faces Life - Joyce Jordan, MD - au rl orig 986
- WRC 45th Anniversary: 1939 - au rl orig 1698
- Jeanne Toncre - au ac orig 1979
- Great Moments in Radio, Vol. 1 - au rl orig 181
- Mary Noble
- Backstage Wife
- Romance of Helen Trent
- Ma Perkins
- Mary Noble
- First Fifty Years of Radio - au rl orig 978
PAMPHLETS
The pamphlets listed below represent a partial listing from our holdings. For a more thorough listing, please search in our Pamphlet database
CBS Program Managers Clinic. The Daytime Serial. July 1945. LAB Pamphlet 304
Knight Raymond. The Story of Wheatenaville. The Wheatena Corporation, 1934.
LAB Pamphlet 987
Pond's Extract Company. Those We Love, The Friends We've Made. 1938.
LAB Pamphlet 1902
Summers, Leda P. Daytime Serials and Iowa Women. Radio Station WHO, Des Moines, Iowa. 1943. LAB Pamphlet 2428
SCRIPTS
- Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins
- Vic and Sade
- The Woman in White
- The Guiding Light
- Backstage Wife
- Today's Children
- Arnold Grimm's Daughter
- Big Sister
- The Story of Mary Marlin
- The Search for Gwen Owen
- Girl Alone
- Kitty Keene, Inc.
- One Man's Family
TRANSCRIPTS
- Wayland Fullington - AT 76
- Caroline Rakestraw - AT 530
- William M. Sweets - AT 139
- Jeanne Toncre - AT 1099
- Mary Wood - AT 1149
SUBJECT FILES
PBT- Serials.
- Letter from Mrs. Ernest Lenn, publicity chairman, RLNC. "Soap Operas in San Francisco." November 10, 1948.
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Thurber, James. "Soapland." The New Yorker. Five-part series, 1948.
- "One Man's Family."
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