Victoria E. JohnsonAssociate Professor and Chair, Film & Media Studies |
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Research Interests |
Critical History/Theory of U.S. Television and Film, Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography, Critical Race Theory, Sound and Music in Film/TV, Branding and Identity, Sport and Community, Media Policy and Law, Communication Technology and Rural Access | |
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Academic Distinctions |
Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity is the 2009 recipient of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award Wolf Visiting Professor, University of Pennsylvania, 2009 Phi Beta Kappa |
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| Appointments |
Prior to her appointment at the University of California, Irvine, Dr. Johnson was a faculty member at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and visiting faculty at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She was Wolf Visiting Professor in Television Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Cinema Studies in Spring, 2009. Steering Committee and Faculty, African American Studies Affiliated Faculty, Women's Studies Tuesdays, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. and By Appointment Tuesdays and Wednesdays Undergraduate Courses History of Broadcasting Film and Media Theory Critical Theory of TV Race/Sport/Media Culture and Special Topics courses in TV and Media Culture Graduate Courses Critical Historiography and Theory of U.S. TV Seminar in Cultural Studies |
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Research Abstract |
Victoria E. Johnson teaches courses and conducts scholarly research on topics related to: Broadcast media theory, history and historiography; social and critical history of U.S. television and popular film; cultural studies; race, geography and popular media; popular music and scoring in film and television; sport culture; branding and identity; entertainment law and the construction of celebrity as property; media policy and rural access to communication technology. She has published several articles regarding the politics of place, race, and popular music in anthologies and journals including The Revolution Wasn’t Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict, Spike Lee’s 'Do the Right Thing', Film Quarterly, The Velvet Light Trap, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, and online at In Media Res. Her book, Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity, examines the imagination of the American midwest as symbolic Heartland in critical moments in prime-time television and U.S. social history. |
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| Publications |
SELECT PUBLICATIONS Books Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity(New York: New York University Press, 2008). |
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Book Chapters and Journal Articles "Everything New Is Old Again: Sport Television, Innovation, and Tradition for a Multi-Platform Era," Beyond Prime Time: Television Programming in the Post-Network Era, Ed. Amanda D. Lotz (New York: Routledge, 2009): 114-137. "Historicizing TV Networking: Broadcasting, Cable, and the Case of ESPN." Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method, Eds. Jennifer Holt and Alisa Perren (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009): 57-68. "Racism and Television," African Americans and Popular Culture Ed. Todd Boyd (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008): 165-184. "From Paradise Cove to the Precinct: Mapping The Rockford Files' Urban (Tele)Visions," Considering David Chase: Essays on The Sopranos, Northern Exposure, and The Rockford Files, ed. Thomas Fahy (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2007): 11-28. "Broadcasting," The American Midwest, eds. Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006): 939-942. |
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"'Welcome Home'? CBS, PAX-TV, and 'Heartland' Values in a Neo-Network Era," The Television Studies Reader, eds. Robert Allen and Annette Hill (London: Routledge, 2004): 404-417. "Television and Civil Rights." Civil Rights in the United States, eds. Waldo E. Martin and Patricia Sullivan (New York: Macmillan, 2000): 719-721. "Citizen Welk: Bubbles, Blue Hair, and Middle America," The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict. eds. Lynn Spigel and Michael Curtin (NY: Routledge, 1997): 265-285. "Polyphony and Cultural Expression: Interpreting Musical Traditions in 'Do The Right Thing,'" Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, Ed. Mark A. Reid (NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997): 50-72. |
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Professional Societies |
Society for Cinema and Media Studies American Studies Association University Film and Video Association North American Society for the Sociology of Sport |
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| Other Experience |
Editorial Board The Journal of Film and Video |
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Board of Directors Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2008—2011 |
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Chair, Professional Development Committee Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2007—2008 |
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| Graduate Programs |
Visual Studies Culture and Theory |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4927 | |
| Last updated | 09/16/2009 | |