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Heartland TV: prime time television and the struggle for U.S. identity
Victoria E. Johnson
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page vii)
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Introduction: TV, the Heartland Myth, and the Value of Cultural Populism (page 1)
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1 "Essential, Desirable, and Possible Markets": Broadcasting Midwestern Tastes and Values (page 32)
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2 Square Dancing and Champagne Music: Regional Aesthetics and Middle America (page 59)
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3 "Strictly Conventional and Moral": CBS Reports in Webster Groves (page 89)
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4 "You're Gonna Make It After All": The Urbane Midwest in MTM Productions' "Quality" Comedies (page 112)
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5 "There Is No 'Dayton Chic'": Queering the Midwest in Roseanne, Ellen, and The Ellen Show (page 147)
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6 Fertility Among the Ruins: Reconstituting the Traumatized Heartland (page 174)
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Epilogue: Red State, Blue State, Purple Heartland (page 200)
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Appendix (page 211)
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Notes (page 213)
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Index (page 243)
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About the Author (page 262)
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Published: c2008
Publisher: New York University Press
- 9780814742938 (paper)
- 9780814743027 (ebook)
- 9780814742921 (hardcover)