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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Victoria E Johnson |
| ISBN: | 9780814742921 0814742920 9780814742938 0814742939 |
| OCLC Number: | 156845811 |
| Description: | x, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Victoria E. Johnson. |
| More information: | Table of contents only Publisher description Contributor biographical information |
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