Nixon, Agnes (1927—)
Agnes Nixon is the most influential writer in daytime television, introducing social issues and moral seriousness to the soap opera. She served an apprenticeship with the c...
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Critical Essay by Fergus M. Bordewich
Although soap opera aficionados would seem to be a minority among college students, there are nonetheless thousands of young people around the country who daily ...
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Critical Essay by Rod Townley
Partly because of her concern for three-dimensional characters, Agnes Nixon's shows are among the most popular on daytime TV. (p. 13)
More than anyone else, Ag...
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Critical Essay by Agnes Eckhardt Nixon
Time after tedious time, when critics suffer an aridity of fresh, inventive phrases with which to denigrate a film, play or book, they fall back on "soap...
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Critical Essay by Harry F. Waters
Escapism, voyeurism, masochism, catharsis by comparison with others worse off—these are … what the soaps are selling. And if the daily bath of bathos p...
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Critical Essay by Terry Ann Knopf
For those of us who watch the soap operas, once the citadel of escapism, it is clear that we are living in an age in which even such places as Oakdale, Pine Valley, ...
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For the last decade acclaimed Upper West Side horror novelist Peter Straub has followed the ABC soap opera One Life to Live with such dogged enthusiasm that earlier this year the producers awarded ...
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Nixon, Agnes (1927—)
Critical Essay by Fergus M. Bordewich
Me Talk Pretty One Daytime
