Heartland TV : prime time television and the struggle for U.S. identity / Victoria E. Johnson.
- Johnson, Victoria E
- Date:
- [2008], ©2008
- Books
- Online
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Publication/Creation
New York : New York University Press, [2008], ©2008.
Physical description
x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents
Introduction: TV, the heartland myth, and the value of cultural populism -- "Essential, desirable, and possible markets": broadcasting midwestern tastes and values -- Square dancing and champagne music: regional aesthetics and Middle America -- "Strictly conventional and moral": CBS Reports in Webster Groves -- "You're gonna make it after all!": the urbane Midwest in MTM Productions' "quality" comedies -- "There is no 'Dayton chic'": queering the Midwest in Roseanne, Ellen, and The Ellen Show -- Fertility among the ruins: reconstituting the traumatized heartland -- Epilogue: Red state, blue state, purple heartland.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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