Heartland TV : prime time television and the struggle for U.S. identity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Johnson, Victoria E.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2008]
Subjects:	Middle West > On television. Middle West > Press coverage > United States. Television broadcasting of news > United States.

Table of Contents:

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.