Modernization, Nation-Building, and Television History

Introduction Stewart Anderson and Melissa Chakars  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