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Peer reviewedLivingstone, Sonia; Liebes, Tamar – Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1995
Explores parallels between the soap opera and both fairy tales and therapy. Presents a detailed analysis of a recurrent narrative element in soaps--that of the "bad" and/or missing mother of young women heroines in "The Young and the Restless." Emphasizes the repressive over the liberating aspects of the soap opera. (SR)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Fairy Tales, Higher Education, Mothers
