Broadcasting modernity : Cuban commercial television, 1950-1960 / Yeidy M. Rivero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rivero, Yeidy M., 1967-

Series:

Console-ing passions.

Console-ing passions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting--Cuba--History--20th century.

Television broadcasting.

Television and state--Cuba--History--20th century.

Television and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>In this major contribution to Latin American media studies, Yeidy M. Rivero shows how commercial Cuban television, which only existed from 1950-1960, was instrumental in the creation and representation of Cuba's identity as a modern and Western nation-state.<BR></div>

Contents:

Broadcasting modernity, spectacles, and television

Prelude to the spectacles: constituting a modern broadcasting system through

The law, 1923?1950

Spectacles of progress: technology, expansion, and the law

Spectacles of decency: morality as a matter of the industry and the State

Spectacles of democracy and a prelude to the spectacles of revolution

Spectacles of revolution: a rebirth of Cubanness

From broadcasting modernity to constructing modernity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822358718

0822358719

9780822375685

0822375680

OCLC:

1139354546