Actions for Modernization, nation-building, and television history
Modernization, nation-building, and television history / edited by Stewart Anderson and Melissa Chakars
- Published
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
- Physical Description
- vi, 217 pages ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Anderson, Stewart, 1979- and Chakars, Melissa
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.The Opening Ceremonies of Television in Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, and Argentina / Mirta Varela -- 2.Modernity as "Urbanity" in Early Public Service Broadcasting: The Case of Flanders / Hilde Van Den Bulck -- 3.Pro Wrestling and Crying Cowboys: American Influence on Early Japanese Television / Jayson Makoto Chun -- 4.The Tightrope between East and West: East German Television Fiction from the 1960s and the Representation of a Socialist Modernity / Stewart Anderson -- 5.Television Changing Habits: TV Programming in 1960s Soviet Latvia / Sergei Kruk -- 6.Ethiopian Television Service as a Mosaic Modernity Project, 1964--1974 / Amanuel Gebru -- 7.A Lachrymose Heroine for the Masses: The Origins of the Cinderella Plotline in Mexican Telenovelas, 1968--1973 / Melixa Abad-Izquierdo -- 8.Flowers, Steppe Fires, and Communists: Images of Modernity and Identity on TV Shows from Soviet Buryatia in the Brezhnev Era / Melissa Chakars -- 9."Blue and White" Science and Technology: Nationality and Popular Science on Israeli Television, 1968--1988 / Merav Katz-Kimchi -- 10.From "The Devil in the Black Box" to a Nation-Building Tool: Early TV in South Africa---A New Medium for a New Nation / Kristin Skare Orgeret.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781138777958 hardcover
1138777951 hardcover - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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