Media Events: Live Broadcasting of History: The Live Broadcasting of History - Softcover

Dayan, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674559568 ISBN 13: 9780674559561

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1994

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Review:

An important work that should be read by everyone in the media and cultural studies and who may be involved in the study of other modern institutions and political processes.--Eric Rothenbuhler "Contemporary Sociology "

Media Events is a feat of scholarship about a medium that tends to defy scholarship. It is a comprehensive, thoughtful, and original delineation of a phenomenon of live television as a powerful social force. This book marks a milestone in the understanding of how we are affected by television.--Daniel Schorr, National Public Radio

The publication of Media Events is itself a media event of great importance to scholars and professionals in broadcasting and electronic media.--Michael Real "Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media "

Synopsis:

Constituting a new television genre, live broadcasts of "historic" events have become world rituals which, according to Dayman 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 moon landing, and Pope John Paul II's visits to Poland, they offer an ethnography of how media events are scripted, negotiated, performed, celebrated, shamanized and reviewed.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0674559568
• ISBN 13: 9780674559561
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320