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

Olympic Television (eBook, PDF)

Broadcasting the Biggest Show on Earth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an overview of how the Olympic experience has been shaped by media entities, across various platforms and formats. Built around a central case study of NBC's coverage of the Rio Games, it draws on unique access to that network's producers and sportscasters to explore the production, content and effects of Olympic media.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317397687
• Artikelnr.: 48961147

Autorenporträt

Andrew C. Billings is the Ronald Reagan Chair of Broadcasting and Executive Director of the Alabama Program in Sports Communication in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama, U.S. He has published and/or edited 15 books, including Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Television (Routledge, 2008) and The Fantasy Sport Industry: Games within Games (Routledge, 2014), as well as over 140 academic journal articles and book chapters mostly focusing on the intersecting roles of media, sport, and identity.



James R. Angelini is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware, U.S. He has published 29 articles in outlets such as the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Sport in Society, and the Journal of Language and Social Psychology. His research interests include the cognitive processing of media with a focus on mediated sports and identity.



Paul J. MacArthur is a Professor of Public Relations and Journalism at Utica College, U.S. His research interests include the Olympics, mediated sport, cable television, media law, media history, sports history, winter sports and professional wrestling. A veteran of the cable television and radio industries and an accomplished freelance writer, MacArthur's writings have appeared in multiple publications including Smithsonian.com, Down Beat, The Houston Press, VERMONT Magazine, and Skiing Heritage: The Journal of the International Skiing History Association. He has also co-authored more than a dozen refereed articles focusing on television presentation of the Olympic Games.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Olympic Television: Broadcasting the Biggest Show on
Earth 1. Stories We Tell: The Development of Olympic Television 2. Stories
Shaped: Interviews with NBC Producers and Sportscasters 3. Nationalized
Stories: Portraying US vs. Portraying 'The World' 4. Stories Segmented by
Biological Sex: Men and Women in the Thirty-First Olympiad 5. Racialized
Stories: Stacking and Difference at the Rio Games 6. Stories Reverberated:
The Impact of Olympic Media Consumption 7. Deciphering Stories: The Legacy
and Future of Olympic Media