@article{ref1,
title="Child abuse, melodrama and the mother-daughter plot in EastEnders",
journal="European journal of cultural studies",
year="2013",
author="Franco, Judith",
volume="16",
number="3",
pages="267-284",
abstract="This article examines the narrative and discursive strategies that have been mobilised over the past five years in the British community soap EastEnders to construct high-profile child (sex) abuse narratives. It focuses primarily on the long-running retrospective paternal rape and incest storyline that is reconfigured as a maternal melodrama to manage tensions over power, sexuality and the family. The mother-daughter dynamic as a privileged site of trauma and potential resistance to patriarchal control is analysed in both the EastEnders source text and Ronnie and Danielle fan fiction produced by and for female adolescents.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1367-5494",
doi="10.1177/1367549413476012",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549413476012"
}