Rivero Broadcasting Modernity

Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7568-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Console-ing Passions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rivero, Yeidy M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Broadcasting Modernity, Spectacles, and Television 1

1. Prelude to the Spectacles: Constituting a Modern Broadcasting System through the Law, 1923–1950 23

2. Spectacles of Progress: Technology, Expansion, and the Law 45

3. Spectacles of Decency: Morality as a Matter of the Industry and the State 75

4. Spectacles of Democracy and a Prelude to the Spectacles of Revolution 102

5. Spectacles of Revolution: A Rebirth of Cubanness 129

6. From Broadcasting Modernity to Constructing Modernity 163

Epilogue 176

Notes 181

Bibliography 221

Index 233

Über Autor(innen)

Yeidy M. Rivero is Associate Professor of Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television, also published by Duke University Press.