Professor, Department Chair
Office Information:
Surface Mail: 105 S. State Street | 6330 North Quad, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1285
phone: 734.764.0147
Department of Film, Television, and Media; Graduate Program; Administration
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Department of Radio, TV, & Film, Univeristy of Texas at Austin, 2000M.A., Theater, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1993
B.A., Drama, minor in Communications, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 1991
Newest from Yeidy M. Rivero
Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950-1960
Yeidy M. Rivero
The birth and development of commercial television in Cuba in the 1950s occurred alongside political and social turmoil. In this period of dramatic swings encompassing democracy, a coup, a dictatorship, and a revolution, television functioned as a beacon and promoter of Cuba’s identity as a modern nation. InBroadcasting Modernity, television historian Yeidy M. Rivero shows how television owners, regulatory entities, critics, and the state produced Cuban modernity for television. The Cuban television industry enabled different institutions to convey the nation's progress, democracy, economic...
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Contemporary Latina/o Media: Rethinking Production, Circulation and Politics
Arlene Dávila and Yeidy M. Rivero, eds.
Just ten years ago, discussions of Latina/o media could be safely reduced to a handful of TV channels, dominated by Univision and Telemundo. Today, dramatic changes in the global political economy have resulted in an unprecedented rise in major new media ventures for Latinos as everyone seems to want a piece of the Latina/o media market. While current scholarship on Latina/o media have mostly revolved around important issues of representation and stereotypes, this approach does not provide the entire story.
In Contemporary Latina/o Media, Arlene Dávila and Yeidy...
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