Background
Allen, Robert Clyde was born on August 13, 1950 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Son of Clyde Alexander and Arzelia Mae (Chrenshaw) Allen.
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(Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism ) Author: Robert Clyde Allen Jun-2006
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Channels of Discourse, Reassembled (text only) 2nd(Second) edition by R. C. (ed.) Allen
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Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism Paperback Robert C. (ed.) Allen (Author)
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(Channels of Discourse Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism) Author: Robert C. Allen published on (August, 1992)
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Speaking of Soap Operas
(From "Ma Perkins" and "One Man's Family" in the 1930s to ...)
From "Ma Perkins" and "One Man's Family" in the 1930s to "All My Children" in the 1980s, the soap opera has capture the imagination of millions of American men and women of all ages. In Speaking of Soap Operas, Robert Allen undertakes a reexamination of the production and consumption of soap operas through the use of a unique investigatory model based on contemporary poetics and reader-response theory. Although a considerable amount of research has been conducted on these programs, Allen argues that soap operas remain a phenomenon about which much is said but little is known. Soap operas are different from most other media programming -- they appear formless, refuse to end, require little work on the part of the viewer, and bear no recognizable marks of authorship. For these and other reasons, soap operas resist explanation from both traditional aesthetic and empiricist social science perspectives. The daytime dramatic serials generate nearly a billion dollars in revenue each year for the three commercial networks. Allen discusses in detail the economic and institutional functions of these programs in addition to the context of their production. He also considers the historical development of the soap opera as advertising vehicle, narrative structure and "women's fiction." Speaking of Soap Operas is based on the author's own experiences as a soap opera viewer; extensive interviews with soap opera writers, producers, and actors; and the papers of Irna Phillips, creator of dozens of successful ratio and television soap operas. Drawing also upon trade publications, popular periodicals, and broadcast archives, this work is an important contribution to the field of mass communication.
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(Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture) Author: Robert Clyde Allen published on (June, 2006)
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(Speaking of Soap Operas) Author: Robert C. Allen published on (April, 1995)
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Speaking of Soap Operas by Robert C. Allen (30-Apr-1995) Paperback
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Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture (Cultural Studies of the United States) by Allen, Robert C. (1991) Paperback
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Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture (Cultural Studies of the United States)
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Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe of "British Blondes" brought modern burlesque to the United States in 1868, the result was electric. Their impertinent humor, streetwise manner, and provocative parodies of masculinity brought them enormous popular success--and the condemnation of critics, cultural commentators, and even women's rights campaigners. Burlesque was a cultural threat, Allen argues, because it inverted the "normal" world of middle-class social relations and transgressed norms of "proper" feminine behavior and appearance. Initially playing to respectable middle-class audiences, burlesque was quickly relegated to the shadow-world of working-class male leisure. In this process the burlesque performer "lost" her voice, as burlesque increasingly revolved around the display of her body. Locating burlesque within the context of both the social transformation of American theater and its patterns of gender representation, Allen concludes that burlesque represents a fascinating example of the potential transgressiveness of popular entertainment forms, as well as the strategies by which they have been contained and their threats defused.
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Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism by Robert C. Allen (Editor) (6-Aug-1992) Paperback
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Film History: Theory and Practice
(C-90/ MAY HAVE SOME SHELFWEAR,DOES HAVE SOME HIGHLIGHTS)
C-90/ MAY HAVE SOME SHELFWEAR,DOES HAVE SOME HIGHLIGHTS
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Film History: Theory and Practice Paperback 1985
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Film History: Theory and Practice by Robert C Allen (1-Jan-1985) Paperback
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Teoria y practica de la historia del cine/ Film History. Theory and Practice (Spanish Edition)
(El presente libro ha logrado crear un contexto en el que ...)
El presente libro ha logrado crear un contexto en el que la historia del cine puede leerse y desarrollarse de un modo más productivo. Sus objetivos son: en primer lugar, situar la historia del cine dentro del marco de la investigación histórica en general. Luego, familiarizar al lector con los problemas específicos y únicos a los que se enfrentan los historiadores cinematográficos. Y, finalmente revisar los enfoques utilizados hasta ahora en el estudio histórico del cine, ofreciendo a la vez ejemplos de diversos tipos de investigación histórica de las películas. En este sentido, el objetivo de la obra no es dilucidar el modo de llevar a cabo una investigación histórica sobre el cine, sino más bien demostrar que los historiadores cinematográficos no trabajan en el vacío, ni abordan el estudio de la historia del cine ajenos a su cultura, gustos cinematográficos y orientación ideológica.
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Robert Clyde Allen
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Davidson College, 1972. Master of Arts, University Iowa, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, University Iowa, 1977.
Career
Assistant professor Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, 1977-1979, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1979-1984, associate professor, 1984-1989, professor, 1989-1991, Dean E. Smith professor, 1991-1994, James Logan Godfrey professor American studies, history and communications, since 1994. Member international advisory board International Forum for United States Studies, University Iowa, Iowa City, 1995-1998.
Achievements
Works
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Speaking of Soap Operas
(From "Ma Perkins" and "One Man's Family" in the 1930s to ...)
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Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture (Cultural Studies of the United States)
(Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not onl...)
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Teoria y practica de la historia del cine/ Film History. Theory and Practice (Spanish Edition)
(El presente libro ha logrado crear un contexto en el que ...)
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Channels of Discourse, Reassembled (text only) 2nd(Second) edition by R. C. (ed.) Allen
(Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contem...)
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Film History: Theory and Practice
(C-90/ MAY HAVE SOME SHELFWEAR,DOES HAVE SOME HIGHLIGHTS)
- Channels of Discourse
- (Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism ) Author: Robert Clyde Allen Jun-2006
- (Channels of Discourse Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism) Author: Robert C. Allen published on (August, 1992)
- (Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture) Author: Robert Clyde Allen published on (June, 2006)
- (Speaking of Soap Operas) Author: Robert C. Allen published on (April, 1995)
- Speaking of Soap Operas by Robert C. Allen (30-Apr-1995) Paperback
- Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture (Cultural Studies of the United States) by Allen, Robert C. (1991) Paperback
- Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism by Robert C. Allen (Editor) (6-Aug-1992) Paperback
- Film History: Theory and Practice Paperback 1985
- Film History: Theory and Practice by Robert C Allen (1-Jan-1985) Paperback
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Speaking of Soap Operas
Interests
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Married Allison Briggs Adams, August 11, 1979. 1 child, Madeline Adams Allen.
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American
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Fellow Thomas J. Watson Foundation, 1972-1973, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1986-1987, American Council Learned Societies, 1986-1987. Senior scholar Fulbright Scholars program University Sydney, Australia, 1996.Fellow Thomas J. Watson Foundation, 1972-1973, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1986-1987, American Council Learned Societies, 1986-1987. Senior scholar Fulbright Scholars program University Sydney, Australia, 1996.