Broadcasting Modernity - Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Yeidy M. Rivero

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Yeidy M Rivero, Yeidy M. Rivero
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2015
• EAN: 9780822358596
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5859-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Console-ing Passions; Console-ing Passions
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches