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.

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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Main Author: Johnson, Victoria E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Television broadcasting of news > United States.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Press coverage
Television broadcasting of news
Middle West > On television.
Middle West > Press coverage > United States.
Middle West
United States
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Table of 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.

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