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Heartland TV : prime time television and the struggle for U.S. identity /
Winner of the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book AwardThe Midwest of popular imagination is a "Heartland" characterized by traditional cultural values and mass market dispositions. Whether cast positively -; as authentic, pastoral, populist, hardworking,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.