Heartland TV : : Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity /

Heartland TV : : Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity / / Victoria E. Johnson.

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Winner of the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book AwardThe Midwest of popular imagination is a "Heartland" characterized by traditional cultural values and mass market dispositions. Whether cast positively -; as authentic, pastoral, populist, hardworking,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Johnson, Victoria E.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 7 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: TV, the Heartland Myth, and the Value of Cultural Populism
  • 1 “Essential, Desirable, and Possible Markets”: Broadcasting Midwestern Tastes and Values
  • 2 Square Dancing and Champagne Music: Regional Aesthetics and Middle America
  • 3 “Strictly Conventional and Moral”: CBS Reports in Webster Groves
  • 4 “You’re Gonna Make It After All!”: The Urbane Midwest in MTM Productions’ “Quality” Comedies
  • 5 “There Is No ‘Dayton Chic’ ”: Queering the Midwest in Roseanne, Ellen, and The Ellen Show
  • 6 Fertility Among the Ruins: Reconstituting the Traumatized Heartland
  • Epilogue: Red State, Blue State, Purple Heartland
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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