Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of HistoryConstituting 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, performed, celebrated, shamanized, and reviewed. |
Contents
Defining Media Events High Holidays of Mass Communication | 1 |
Scripting Media Events Contest Conquest Coronation | 25 |
Negotiating Media Events | 54 |
Performing Media Events | 78 |
Celebrating Media Events | 119 |
Shamanizing Media Events | 147 |
Reviewing Media Events | 188 |
Five Frames for Assessing the Effects of Media Events | 221 |
Notes | 235 |
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Acknowledgments | 295 |
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Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History Daniel DAYAN,Elihu Katz,Daniel Dayan Limited preview - 2009 |
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