Modernization, nation-building, and television history [electronic resource] / edited by Stewart Anderson and Melissa Chakars.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.