Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 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.

Author: Daniel Dayan, Elihu Katz
ISBN-10: 0674559568
ISBN-13: 9780674559561
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/1994
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.51w x 0.88d