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UNINA9911097230103321 |
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Johnson Victoria E |
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Heartland TV : prime time television and the struggle for U.S. identity / / Victoria E. Johnson |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2008 |
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9780814743621 |
0814743625 |
9780814743027 |
0814743021 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 262 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Television broadcasting of news - United States |
Middle West On television |
Middle West Press coverage United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
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Winner of the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book AwardThe Midwest of popular imagination is a "Heartland" characterized by traditional cultural values and mass market dispositions. Whether cast positively -; as authentic, pastoral, populist, hardworking, and all-American-or negatively-as backward, narrow–minded, unsophisticated, conservative, and out-of-touch-the myth of the Heartland endures.Heartland TV examines the centrality of this myth to television's promotion and development, programming |
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and marketing appeals, and public debates over the medium's and its audience's cultural worth. Victoria E. Johnson investigates how the "square" image of the heartland has been ritually recuperated on prime time television, from The Lawrence Welk Show in the 1950s, to documentary specials in the 1960s, to The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the 1970s, to Ellen in the 1990s. She also examines news specials on the Oklahoma City bombing to reveal how that city has been inscribed as the epitome of a timeless, pastoral heartland, and concludes with an analysis of network branding practices and appeals to an imagined "red state" audience.Johnson argues that non-white, queer, and urban culture is consistently erased from depictions of the Midwest in order to reinforce its "reassuring" image as white and straight. Through analyses of policy, industry discourse, and case studies of specific shows, Heartland TV exposes the cultural function of the Midwest as a site of national transference and disavowal with regard to race, sexuality, and citizenship ideals. |
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UNINA9911108685503321 |
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Autore |
Patten Michael A |
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Birds of the Salton Sea : status, biogeography, and ecology / / Michael A. Patten, Guy McCaskie, and Philip Unitt |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, [2003?] |
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9786612759161 |
9781282759169 |
1282759167 |
9780520929449 |
0520929446 |
9781597344982 |
1597344982 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (379 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Birds - California - Salton Sea |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-347) and index. |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A HISTORY OF THE SALTON SINK -- CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ISSUES -- BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE SALTON SEA -- A CHECKLIST OF THE BIRDS OF THE SALTON SEA -- THE GEOGRAPHIC REGION -- DATA COLLECT ION -- TAXONOMY AND NOMENCLATURE -- SUBSPECIES -- THE MAIN LIST -- NONNATIVE SPEC1 ES -- HYPOTHETICAL LIST -- APPENDIX: COMMON AND SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF PLANT SPECIES MENTIONED IN THE TEXT -- LITERATURE CITED -- INDEX |
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The Salton Sea, California's largest inland lake, supports a spectacular bird population that is among the most concentrated and most diverse in the world. Sadly, this crucial stopover along the Pacific Flyway for migratory and wintering shorebirds, landbirds, and waterfowl is dangerously close to collapse from several environmental threats. This book is the first thoroughly detailed book to describe the birds of Salton Sea, more than 450 species and subspecies in all. A major contribution to our knowledge about the birds of western North America, it will also be an important tool in the struggle to save this highly endangered area. Synthesizing data from many sources, including observations from their long-term work in the area, the authors' species accounts discuss each bird's abundance, seasonal status, movement patterns, biogeographic affinities, habitat associations, and more. This valuable reference also includes general information on the region's fascinating history and biogeography, making it an unparalleled resource for the birding community, for wildlife managers, and for conservation biologists concerned with one of the most threatened ecosystems in western North America. |
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