The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Dissertations Summer 8-2013 Life, Love, and Hegemony on Daytime TV: A Critical Analysis of Three Popular Soap Operas Elizabeth Ann Worden University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Performance Studies Commons, and the Television Commons Recommended Citation Worden, Elizabeth Ann, "Life, Love, and Hegemony on Daytime TV: A Critical Analysis of Three Popular Soap Operas" (2013). Dissertations. 375. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/375 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi LIFE, LOVE, AND HEGEMONY ON DAYTIME TV: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THREE POPULAR SOAP OPERAS by Elizabeth Ann Worden Abstract of a Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy August 2013 ABSTRACT LIFE, LOVE AND HEGEMONY ON DAYTIME TV: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THREE POPULAR SOAP OPERAS by Elizabeth Ann Worden August 2013 This study examined the worlds of three popular soap operas: Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, and Young and the Restless. Someone who has not watched the three soap operas examined for this study might think that soap operas are all alike. Yet this study has demonstrated how different they really are. These soap operas are created by different teams of writers, producers, and editors—different real authors.