Soap opera: a male cultural product consumption?

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  • Cristiane Portela Universidade Metodista de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/c&i.v13i1.19310

Keywords:

Gender. Identi ty. Male. Soap opera.

Abstract

The arti cle discusses the soap opera consumpti on as a cultural productby men. Therefore, the cultural components with infl uence onthe male and female identi ty are approached. It is observed howthese aspects can act on the soap opera consumpti on by men fromlower social class who have the non-subscribed TV as a main information and entertainment source. The fi eld research was conductedby applying a questi onnaire. It is concluded that among the 10 interviewees,only one did not have the habit of watching soap operas. Allthe other parti cipants were att racted by the soap opera script.

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Author Biography

Cristiane Portela, Universidade Metodista de São Paulo

Doutoranda em Comunicação na Universidade Metodista de São Paulo (UMESP). Mestre em Comunicação pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). Especialista em Docência do Ensino Superior pela Faculdade Santo Agostinho (FSA). Graduada em Comunicação Social – Habilitação Jornalismo – pela Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI).

Published

2012-07-16

How to Cite

PORTELA, C. Soap opera: a male cultural product consumption?. Comunicação & Informação, Goiânia, Goiás, v. 13, n. 1, p. 69–77, 2012. DOI: 10.5216/c&i.v13i1.19310. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/ci/article/view/19310. Acesso em: 21 dec. 2024.

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