Media Events : The Live Broadcasting of History

Media Events : The Live Broadcasting of History

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Book Description
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.

About the Author
is a Fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. is Trustee Professor at the Annenberg School for CommunicationUniversity of Pennsylvannia; Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Scientific Director of the Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research.

Media Events : The Live Broadcasting of History,Daniel Dayan,Elihu Katz,Harvard University Press,0674559568,Cinema/Film: Book,Media Studies - Electronic Media,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Social Science,Sociology,Sociology - General,Television - General,Social Science / Sociology / General

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