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BL
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951408
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b705778
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| Main Entry
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Johnson, Victoria E.
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| Title & Author
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Heartland TV : : prime time television and the struggle for U.S. identity /\ Victoria E. Johnson.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: New York University Press,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (x, 262 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0814743021
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: 9780814743027
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0814742920
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0814742939
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9780814742921
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9780814742938
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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Television broadcasting of news-- United States.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Film Video-- Reference.
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Press coverage
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Television broadcasting of news
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Middle West, On television.
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Middle West, Press coverage, United States.
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Middle West
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United States
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/6277
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PN1992.8.M52J64 2008eb
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