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The World’s Most Subversive Soap Operas

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From telenovelas about missing girls to a series on conflict resolution amid war, soap operas are becoming agents of social change in the developing world. By Christopher Dickey.

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When veteran Hollywood screenwriter Deborah Jones saw that the director of photography on her latest dramatic series was carrying an AK47 assault rifle, she thought to herself, “That’s new,” and she was more than a little worried.

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