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Victoria E. Johnson's stellar Sports TV offers the best available scholarly introduction to its topic. Just as important, this book persuasively argues for the centrality of sports television to any serious consideration of popular media culture. Travis Vogan, University of Iowa, USA Johnson has written the definitive critical history of sports as one of television's most enduring and important genres. Sports TV is an elegant and masterfully comprehensive analysis of sports as our televisual public forum. This book is a slam dunk/touchdown/home run work of media scholarship. Jennifer Holt, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Victoria E. Johnson's stellar Sports TV offers the best available scholarly introduction to its topic. Just as important, this book persuasively argues for the centrality of sports television to any serious consideration of popular media culture. Travis Vogan, University of Iowa, USA Johnson has written the definitive critical history of sports as one of television's most enduring and important genres. Sports TV is an elegant and masterfully comprehensive analysis of sports as our televisual public forum. This book is a slam dunk/touchdown/home run work of media scholarship. Jennifer Holt, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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Victoria E. Johnson is Professor of Film and Media Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity (2008) was awarded the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award in 2009. She writes about the cultural history of US television by examining its popular geographic mythologies, representations of race and place, and sports media.

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