Muy buenas noches

by Gonzalez De Bustamante, Celeste; Cole, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780803240100
• ISBN10: 0803240104
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

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 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.

Author Biography

Celeste Gonzlez De Bustamante is an assistant professor of journalism and affiliated faculty at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, and a former reporter and news anchor.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xxi
The Rise of Television in Mexico	p. 1
The Invention of Tele-Traditions	p. 31
Rebels and Revolutionaries	p. 53
The First Television Diplomats	p. 79
Hot Rockets and Cold War	p. 107
Olympic Dreams and Tlatelolco Nightmares	p. 145
Victory for the Brazilians and Echeverría	p. 177
Conclusion	p. 205
Notes	p. 217
Bibliography	p. 243
Index	p. 259
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