This studio show was produced in collaboration with ACTV (Adams Community Television – Gettysburg, PA) and the Wexner Center. Judith Mayne, a feminist cultural critic and author of Cinema and Spectatorship, takes a look at soap opera magazines in order to gain a more clear sense of what kind of value they hold for the reader. As an admitted soap opera fan, Mayne tries to look beyond the usual pejorative tone which media critics have, nearly universally, in discussing soap operas. According to Mayne, she has learned much more from about soaps from soap opera magazines than from media criticism on the subject. Specifically, Mayne looks at Soap Opera Digest and Soap Opera Weekly, deconstructing the summaries, editorials, and letters to the editor. She calls attention to the substantive content in these magazines, including articles dealing with under-representation of minorities and the prevalence of rape-based subplots in soaps. Mayne also goes onto the streets to interview fellow soap fans, asking for their opinions on the story lines as well as on race, class and sexuality as represented in soap operas. Mayne goes on further to discuss realism (or lack thereof) in soaps and how the unreality of soap opera story lines factor into the pleasure gained from soaps. Finally, Mayne concludes in stating that soap magazines provide for much more dialogue and debate that most critics would ever acknowledge. The show closes as Mayne and others sit, watch and discuss a soap opera in the living room of the ”dream house” an installation by Paper Tiger at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Ohio State Professor and feminist cultural critic, Judith Mayne gives a critical reading of soap opera mags and subculture to discover their unmistakable allure. Mayne is the author of Women at the Keyhole.