Documenting the Beijing Olympics
D.P. Martinez, "Documenting the Beijing Olympics "
English | ISBN: 1138880574 | 2015 | 192 pages | EPUB | 1269 KB
English | ISBN: 1138880574 | 2015 | 192 pages | EPUB | 1269 KB
This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics – ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word – and the meanings generated by such representations. What were the ‘key’ stories and how were they chosen? What was dramatised? Who were the heroes? Which ‘clashes’ were highlighted and how? What sorts of stories did the notion of ‘human interest’ generate? Did politics take a backseat or was the topic highlighted repeatedly? Thus, the focus was not on the success or failure of this event, but on the ways in which the Olympics Games, as international and historic events, are memorialised by observers.
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