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Media Events The Live Broadcasting of History

Paperback • 1992 • English

Media Events The Live Broadcasting of History

By Daniel Dayan, Elihu Katz

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About the book

Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of “historic” events have become world rituals which, according to Daniel Dayan and Elihu 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, per...Show more

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ISBN

9780674559561

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

1992

Language

English

Original title

Media Events The Live Broadcasting of History

Format

Paperback

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