Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History
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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. Daniel Schorr - National Public Radio 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.
Preface1Defining Media Events: High Holidays of Mass Communication12Scripting Media Events: Contest, Conquest, Coronation253Negotiating Media Events544Performing Media Events785Celebrating Media Events1196Shamanizing Media Events1477Reviewing Media Events188Appendix: Five Frames for Assessing the Effects of Media Events221Notes235References275Acknowledgments295Index299
