Victoria Johnson

Victoria E. Johnson

Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies
School of Humanities

Ph.D., University of Southern California, Cinema-Television
M.A., University of Southern California, Cinema-Television
B.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Humanities/Cinema Studies and Political Science/Political Theory

Phone: (949) 824-3448
Fax: (949) 824-2464
Email: v.e.johnson@uci.edu

University of California
213 Humanities Instructional Building
Department of Film and Media Studies
Mail Code: 2435
Irvine, CA 92697

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

Academic Distinctions	Phi Beta Kappa

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. UCI Affiliations: Steering Committee and Faculty, African American Studies Affiliated Faculty, Women's Studies Courses Frequently Taught 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

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.

Publications	SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Books Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity(New York: New York University Press, 2008).

	Book Chapters and Journal Articles "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. See details

	"Broadcasting," The American Midwest, eds. Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006): 939-942. See details.

	"'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. See details. "Television and Civil Rights." Civil Rights in the United States, eds. Waldo E. Martin and Patricia Sullivan (New York: Macmillan, 2000): 719-721. "Fertility Among the Ruins: The 'Heartland,' Maternity, and the Oklahoma City Bombing," Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 13.1 (1999): 57-75. "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.

Professional Societies	Society for Cinema and Media Studies American Studies Association University Film and Video Association Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Education Foundation North American Society for the Sociology of Sport

Other Experience	Editorial Board The Journal of Film and Video
	Board of Directors Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2008—2011
	Chair, Professional Development Committee Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2007—2008
Graduate Programs	Visual Studies Culture and Theory

Courses Taught

spring 2009

ENGL 078.401 Television Studies

ENGL 295.401 TV Nation –Television and the Imagination of Community