In her 2009 Henry Mayer Lecture, presented in Brisbane in March, Ien Ang reflects on her own work on global and popular television cultures, spanning almost 25 years. In particular, she traces the intellectual continuity from her first, classic book, Watching Dallas, published in 1985, to her last book, The SBS Story, published in 2008, from the point of view of her own experience as a migrant.
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AngIen1985, Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination, Methuen, London.
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AngIen2007, ‘Television Fictions Around the World: Melodrama and Irony in Global Perspective’, Critical Studies in Television, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 18–30.
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AngIenHawkinsGayDabboussyLamia2008, The SBS Story: The Challenge of Cultural Diversity, UNSW Press, Sydney.
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TV Guide1993, ‘The Best Prime-Time Soaps’, 17 April.
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AngIenBrandJeffreyNobleGregWildingDerek2002, Living Diversity: Australia's Multicultural Future, SBS Books, Sydney.
