The Soap Operas You Have Studied

Issi's hierarchy of discourse changes once she gets out of the pub, in the scene where issi is with Tony she is shown to be a matriarchal figure by the content of what she is saying and as the camera pans away from her you can still hear her talking, she becomes a mother figure for Beth.
<Tab/>Women and men in soap operas are represented in very different ways. Men usually have to adopt female qualities in order to be privileged but the men who do not adopt feminine qualities will be portrayed at the bottom of the hierarchy, this is very different to other genres of television and is probably due to the openness of the text and the room for interpretation that is present for the audience. Women are usually privileged over men unless they discard their feminine qualities and adopt masculine qualities. Women are usually rewarded for virtues that other forms of genre would punish them for.
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