Victoria E. Johnson

Victoria E. Johnson is Professor of Film and Media Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She writes about the cultural history of US television by examining its popular geographic mythologies, representations of race and place, and sports media.

Sports TV (Routledge, 2021) offers a guide to sports TV, its history in the United States, the genre's defining characteristics, and analysis of its critical significance for the business practices, formal properties, and social, cultural, and political meanings of the medium.

Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity (NYU Press, 2008) was awarded the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award in 2009.