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...Fernando Purcell Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950–1960 . By Rivero Yeidy M. . Console-ing Passions . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2015 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. vii, 252 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press...

...Howard J. Wiarda Power and Television in Latin America: The Dominican Case . By Menéndez Alarcón Antonio V. . Westport : Praeger , 1992 . Graphs. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 199 pp. Cloth . $47.95 . Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Antonio...

...Harold E. Hinds Soap Operas for Social Change: Toward a Methodology for Entertainment-Education Television . By Nariman Heidi Noel . Westport : Praeger , 1993 . Photographs. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index , xxii , 143 pp. Cloth . $47.95 . Copyright 1994 by Duke...

...Herbert Braun Television, Politics, and the Transition to Democracy in Latin America. Edited by Skidmore Thomas E. . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1993 . Tables. Figures. Notes. Index , xii , 188 pp. Cloth . $25.00 . Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press...

...Andrew Paxman “Muy buenas noches”: Mexico, Television, and the Cold War . By de Bustamante Celeste González . The Mexican Experience . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2012 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxxvi, 275 pp. Paper , $40.00...

...Figures 1 and 2. Doña Petrona C. de Gandulfo (top and bottom right) and Juanita Bordoy (bottom left) on the set of the television program Buenas Tardes, Mucho Gusto . Courtesy of Marcela Massut. ...

...Jacqueline Sharkey Despite these shortcomings, the book provides a solid foundation for research into the impact of radio and television on national development in Latin America. In addition, Katz and Wedell collected their data between September 1973 and April 1975. Since that time...

..., an evaluation for the government of Mozambique of an experimental television program that was to encourage local participation and promote freedom from “the whole system of cultural dependence,” is discussed for two and a half pages, while earlier similar experiments in Tanzania get exactly one sentence...

.... That evening Fidel Castro spoke at length on national radio and television about counterrevolutionary attempts against his government. He read a recently captured letter that alleged that the Spanish embassy was helping to arrange transit out of Cuba for many Roman Catholics seeking political asylum and exile...

... Warren, Anthony Maingot, Patricia Fernández Kelly, Alejandro Portes, and Rubén Rumbaut, addresses racial and immigration issues. Stepan’s volume contains a short and helpful introduction summarizing the history of the TV project. The essay collection, as he claims, is truly interdisciplinary...

... by the end of the decade, its influences and legacies continue to pervade Argentine culture to this day. A large-scale mass media phenomenon, the destape thrived in television, radio, literature, advertising, theater, cinema, and print media. What had been only suggested was now openly shown and discussed...

... television education in an effort to revive the Alliance for Progress in Latin America. Educational reform was clearly underway in the country and, as the authors point out, the educational television project had “consumed half of the total reform budget from 1966 to 1970” in addition to receiving “US$11...

... , $60.00 . Paper , $24.95 . Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 One day during the late 1960s, renowned Cuban musician and nueva trova composer Pablo Milanés is said to have grown so frustrated with state television head Papito Serguera and other revolutionary officials censoring his...

... discusses the reception of Rambo and of television series such as Dallas , Ironside , and Bonanza , among numerous others. Rinke offers a meticulously researched account of norteamericanización (50 pages of sources and bibliography, a treasure trove of footnotes for Chileanists as well as business...

... materials and commentators to trace a cultural study of the West in its various facets: Why was a cattleman a cattleman? What part did women play? Was the cowboy really like he is portrayed on TV? What was this code of the West? And sundry other questions. After a thorough plumbing of the subject...

... regulations and their violations and the theft and damage cases, one can read stories of “rustling” which turn the present rash of Western television fare into the palest of imitations. The Mexican Mesta is recommended to any television or movie writer looking for a fresh outlook. The Mesta eventually...

... ’50 (Rio de Janeiro: Relume Dumará, 1994). Rubem Fonseca’s Agosto (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1990) was adapted as a TV Globo miniseries in 1993. The museum exhibition is housed in the Palácio do Catete, now the Museu da República, in the bedroom where Vargas shot himself. The popular tunes...

... with various systems of communication, exchange, and representation. In doing so, she offers a unique frame for studying the dictatorship in Brazil, riddled with nuances and paradoxical, contradictory situations. Shtromberg grounds her discussion on four such systems: currency, newspaper, television...

... to repurpose former torture centers, coincided with the release of cultural works that similarly responded to the dictatorship, such as novels, films, or television shows. In the ensuing public discussions and understandings, the institutional mechanisms and cultural productions intertwined...