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Heartland TV [electronic resource] : prime time television and the struggle for U.S. identity / Victoria E. Johnson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2008.Description: x, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources:
Contents:
Introduction: TV, the heartland myth, and the value of cultural popu lism -- "Essential, desirable, and possible markets": broadcasting midw estern tastes and values -- Square dancing and champagne music: regiona l aesthetics and Middle America -- "Strictly conventional and moral": C BS 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 S how -- Fertility among the ruins: reconstituting the traumatized heartl and -- Epilogue: Red state, blue state, purple heartland.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: TV, the heartland myth, and the value of cultural popu lism -- "Essential, desirable, and possible markets": broadcasting midw estern tastes and values -- Square dancing and champagne music: regiona l aesthetics and Middle America -- "Strictly conventional and moral": C BS 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 S how -- Fertility among the ruins: reconstituting the traumatized heartl and -- Epilogue: Red state, blue state, purple heartland.

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