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By Andrew C. Billings,James R. Angelini,Paul J. MacArthur

ISBN-10: 1138930318

ISBN-13: 9781138930315

ISBN-10: 1138930326

ISBN-13: 9781138930322

As the Olympic spectacle grows, broadcast assurance turns into higher, extra advanced, and extra refined. half carrying occasion, half truth express, and half worldwide competition, the Olympics may be visible as either intensely nationalistic and a party of a shared experience of foreign neighborhood. This publication sheds new mild on how the Olympic event has been formed via tv and elevated throughout a number of systems and codecs.


Combining a large number of techniques starting from interviews to content material analyses to viewers surveys, the e-book explores the creation, impression, and importance of Olympic media in modern society. outfitted on a important case research of NBC’s insurance of the Rio video games in 2016, that is then positioned inside two decades of content material analyses, the e-book makes a speciality of the complete Olympic tv technique from creation to content material to results.


Touching on key issues akin to race, gender, historical past, consumerism, id, nationalism, and storytelling, Olympic tv: Broadcasting the largest exhibit on Earth is attention-grabbing interpreting for any pupil or student with an curiosity in game, media, and the worldwide effect of mega-events.

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