Johnson, Victoria E.. Heartland TV prime time television and the struggle for U.S. identity

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Includes bibliographical references and index Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, MPublishing, 2010. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet

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

Extended title: Heartland TV prime time television and the struggle for U.S. identity / Victoria E. Johnson

Television broadcasting of news Middle West

author: Johnson, Victoria E.
associated with: American Council of Learned Societies