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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786324603321

Autore

González de Bustamante Celeste <1965->

Titolo

"Muy buenas noches" [[electronic resource] ] : Mexico, television, and the Cold War / / Celeste González de Bustamante ; foreword by Richard Cole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-83463-4

0-8032-4485-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Collana

The Mexican experience

Classificazione

HIS025000PER010030LAN008000

Disciplina

070.4/30972

Soggetti

Television broadcasting of news - Mexico - History - 20th century

Cold War - Influence

Mexico History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Rise of Television in Mexico; 2 The Invention of Tele-Traditions; 3 Rebels and Revolutionaries; 4 The First Television Diplomats; 5 Hot Rockets and Cold War; 6 Olympic Dreams and Tlatelolco Nightmares; 7 Victory for the Brazilians and Echeverría; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"By the end of the twentieth century, Mexican multimedia conglomerate Televisa stood as one of the most powerful media companies in the world. Most scholars have concluded that the company's success was owed in large part to its executives who walked in lockstep with the government and the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), which ruled for seventy-one years. At the same time, government decisions regulating communications infrastructure aided the development of the television industry. In one of the first books to be published in English on Mexican television, Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante argues that despite the cozy relationship between media moguls and the PRI, these connections should not be viewed as static and without friction. Through an examination of early television news programs, this book reveals the tensions that existed between what the PRI and government



officials wanted to be reported and what was actually reported and how. Further, despite the increasing influence of television on society, viewers did not always accept or agree with what they saw on the air. Television news programming played an integral role in creating a sense of lo mexicano (that which is Mexican) at a time of tremendous political, social, and cultural change. At its core the book grapples with questions about the limits of cultural hegemony at the height of the PRI and the cold war. "--