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Beilby, Denise.D. et al. (1999). "Whose Stories Are They? Fans' Engagement with Soap Opera Narratives in Three Sites of Fan Activity". Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 43, 35-55.

Brown, Mary Ellen. Soap Opera and Women's Culture: Politics and the Popular In Doing Research on Women's Communication: Perspectives on Theory And Method. Ablex Publishing, 1989. 161-90.

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Websites Used:

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/P/htmlP/phillipsirn/phillipsirn.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awrs9/daytime.html

http://homepage.mac.com/ijball/ratv/current-TV/soaps.html

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/kuhna/

http://www.usc.edu/dept/las/english/faculty/modleski.html

http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/media-communications/staff/morley.php

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