Karol Orban Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.ORCID ID 0000-0002-3156-4699 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-27-2025-1.30-38 Keywords: soap opera, acting performance, social psychology, television production, postmodern culture. Abstract. The soap opera is a genre that has a place in television documentaries. It is a family series consisting of aired episodes sequentially depicting both the storyline and…Continue reading The soap opera and its place in mass media culture (definition of the value message)