Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History

Voorkant
Harvard University Press, 30 jun 2009 - 320 pagina's
Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of historic events have become world rituals which, according to Dayan and Katz, have the potential for transforming societies even as they transfix viewers around the globe. Analyzing such public spectacles as the Olympic games, the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, John F. Kenndy's funeral, the moon landing, and Pope John II's visits to Poland, they offer an ethnography of how media events are scripted, negotiated, performed, celebrated, shamanized, and reviewed.

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High Holidays of Mass Communication
1
Contest Conquest Coronation
25
3 Negotiating Media Events
54
4 Performing Media Events
78
5 Celebrating Media Events
119
6 Shamanizing Media Events
147
7 Reviewing Media Events
188
Five Frames for Assessing the Effects of Media Events
221
Notes
235
References
275
Acknowledgments
295
Index
299
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