Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History - Hardcover

Dayan, Daniel; Katz, Elihu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067455955X ISBN 13: 9780674559554

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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 this title

From the Back Cover:

Analyzing such public spectacles as the Olympic games, the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, John F. Kennedy's funeral, 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 the Author:

Daniel Dayan is a Fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 067455955X
• ISBN 13: 9780674559554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320