TY - GEN AU - Johnson, Victoria E. ED - American Council of Learned Societies. TI - Heartland TV: prime time television and the struggle for U.S. identity PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Television broadcasting of news KW - United States KW - Middle West KW - On television KW - Press coverage N1 - 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; Electronic text and image data; Ann Arbor, Mich.; University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing; 2010; Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text; ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]); Mode of a ccess: Intranet UR - htt p://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.08237 ER -