Overview
The birth and development of commercial television in Cuba in the 1950s occurred alongside political and social turmoil. In this period of dramatic swings encompassing democracy, a coup, a dictatorship, and a revolution, television functioned as a beacon and promoter of Cuba's identity as a modern nation. In Broadcasting Modernity, television historian Yeidy M. Rivero shows how television owners, regulatory entities, critics, and the state produced Cuban modernity for television. The Cuban television industry enabled different institutions to convey the nation's progress, democracy, economic abundance, high culture, education, morality, and decency. After nationalizing Cuban television, the state used it to advance Fidel Castro's project of creating a modern socialist country. As Cuba changed, television changed with it. Rivero not only demonstrates television's importance to Cuban cultural identity formation, she explains how the medium functions in society during times of radical political and social transformation.
Full Product Details
Author: Yeidy M. Rivero
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.354kg
ISBN: 9780822358718
ISBN 10: 0822358719
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 27 March 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
College/higher education
,
Professional & Vocational
,
Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.
Reviews
Broadcasting Modernity is the definitive and most comprehensive account of Cuban television during the decade immediately preceding the Revolution of 1959. Simply brilliant at all levels, this is one of those books that changes the way in which we make sense of one of the most important social processes of the Latin American twentieth century. Yeidy M. Rivero has made an enormous contribution to Latin American and U.S. media scholarship. --Jose Quiroga, author of Cuban Palimpsests
Broadcasting Modernity is the definitive and most comprehensive account of Cuban television during the decade immediately preceding the Revolution of 1959. Simply brilliant at all levels, this is one of those books that changes the way in which we make sense of one of the most important social processes of the Latin American twentieth century. Yeidy M. Rivero has made an enormous contribution to Latin American and U.S. media scholarship. --Jos Quiroga, author of Cuban Palimpsests
Author Information
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.
