Johnson, Victoria E. <br/><br/>
Heartland TV  prime time television and the struggle for U.S. identity /  [electronic resource] : 
Victoria E. Johnson. 
 - New York :  New York University Press,  c2008. 
 - x, 262 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
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<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>2027/heb08237  hdl 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middle West--On television.<br/>Middle West--Press coverage--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Television broadcasting of news