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Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History

paperback – March 15, 1994
by Dayan
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ISBN-13: 9780674559561 ISBN-10: 0674559568
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Binding
paperback
Published
March 15, 1994
Weight
0.8 lbs
Dimensions
21.60×1.90×14.00 cm

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Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History by Dayan. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780674559561.

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, performed, celebrated, shamanized, and reviewed.