Religion, Morality, and the Death of the American Soap Opera
…context of attention to the past, programs devote intense energy to the day-to-day business of intense moral dilemmas, egregious moral violations, and agonizing moral questions. Personal morality, rather than social justice, has always been the domain of the soap. Those who watch soap operas regularly will not hesitate to tell you that the shows have incorporated select “big issues” into storylines over the years—alcoholism, abortion, racism, same…
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