Media Events : : The Live Broadcasting of History /

Media Events : : The Live Broadcasting of History / / Daniel Dayan, Elihu Katz.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Dayan, Daniel,
Katz, Elihu,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1992
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • 1 Defining Media Events: High Holidays of Mass Communication
  • 2 Scripting Media Events: Contest, Conquest, Coronation
  • 3 Negotiating Media Events
  • 4 Performing Media Events
  • 5 Celebrating Media Events
  • 6 Shamanizing Media Events
  • 7 Reviewing Media Events
  • Appendix: Five Frames for Assessing the Effects of Media Events
  • Notes
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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