TAKING SOAPS SERIOUSLY:
The WorId of GUIDING LIGHT

by Michael James Intintoli

PRAEGER SPECIAL STUDIES · PRAEGER SCIENTIFIC

N e w Y o r k< · P h i I a d e I p h i a · E a s t b o u r n e, U K
T o r o n t o · H o n g K o n g · T o y k o · S y d n e y

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Intintoli, Michael James.

Taking soaps seriously.

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

1. Guiding light (Television program) 1. Title
ISBN 0-03-070554- 1 (alk. paper) 1984 791.45'72 83-27232

Published in 1984 by Praeger Publishers
CBS Educational and Professional Publishing
a Division of CBS Inc.
521 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10175 USA
© 1999 by Michael J. Intintoli

All rights reserved


Acknowledgments

The cooperation and work of many people made this book possible. I would like to thank the people I learned from at Edge of Night, Guiding Light, CBS and AB and the members of my Ph.D. committee, Jay Ruby, Richard Chalfen and Dan Schiller.

Finally, I would like to recognize my debt to the work of the late Philip Elliott and have this book seen as a part of an on-going conversation over how and why we tell ourselves the stories that we do.

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