9780822358718-0822358719-Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960 (Console-ing Passions)

Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960 (Console-ing Passions)

ISBN-13: 9780822358718
ISBN-10: 0822358719
Author: Yeidy M. Rivero
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 264 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780822358718
ISBN-10: 0822358719
Author: Yeidy M. Rivero
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 264 pages

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Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960 (Console-ing Passions) (ISBN-13: 9780822358718 and ISBN-10: 0822358719), written by authors Yeidy M. Rivero, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2015. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960 (Console-ing Passions) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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.

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