Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity

by Victoria E. Johnson

Book Overview

Winner of the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award
The Midwest of popular imagination is a "Heartland" characterized by traditional cultural values and mass market dispositions. Whether cast positively --; as authentic, pastoral, populist, hardworking, and all-American--or negatively--as backward, narrow-minded, unsophisticated, conservative, and out-of-touch--the myth of the Heartland endures.
Heartland...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814742939
• ISBN13: 9780814742938
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"