Why who shot J. R. Matters: Dallas as the pinnacle of human evolutionary television.
The TV series Dallas remains one of the most popular shows to ever have been broadcast on American TV. It was a serialized prime-time soap opera with weekly 45 minute episodes that ran from 1978 until 1991. This long-running show is one of the few to have been entirely released in DVD format; all 14...
| Publicado en: | Review of General Psychology Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 200 - 208 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2012 Jun
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