Heartland TV : prime time television and the struggle for U.S. identity /

Main Author: Johnson, Victoria E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2008.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Television broadcasting of news  |z United States. 
650 7 |a PERFORMING ARTS  |x Film & Video  |x Reference. 
650 7 |a Press coverage 
650 7 |a Television broadcasting of news 
651 0 |a Middle West  |x On television. 
651 0 |a Middle West  |x Press coverage  |z United States. 
651 7 |a Middle West 
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