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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452240303321
• Autore: Johnson Victoria E
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-8147-4362-5; 0-8147-4302-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 262 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 791.43/6277
• Soggetti: Television broadcasting of news - United States; Electronic books.; Middle West On television; Middle West Press coverage United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.