The Persistence of Geographic Myth in a Convergent Media Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7501407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victoria E Johnson (0000-0003-1898-6800, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 58-65 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Popular Film and Television (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0195-6051 • E-ISSN: 1930-6458 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01956051.2010.483341 |
| OpenAlex | W2094082849 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article examines television's continuing role in delineating the relationship between regional identity and national values. It unpacks the geographically inflected industrial-promotional and popular-critical discourses surrounding Friday Night Lights (NBC, 2006–present) to argue that NBC's apparent inability to market the show in its first season and critics' general befuddlement at the series' quality during the same season were rooted in the series' counterintuitive reworking of “official” cultural mythologies regarding quality TV and capital relations presumed to be at home in the flyover U.S. heartland. The article interrogates the resiliency of regional mythology as a national, cultural “common sense” that has been significantly reenergized in the transition from a network era to a postnetwork era
Art · Economic geography · Geography · Literature · Media studies · Mythology · Persistence (discontinuity · Sociology · Engineering · Media Studies and Communication
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2020 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |