Six minutes in Berlin : broadcast spectacle and rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics / Michael J. Socolow.

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Socolow, Michael J, 1968- [author.]

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TextSeries: Studies in sports mediaPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780252099144
0252099141

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Six minutes in Berlin.DDC classification:

796.48 23

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GV722 1936

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Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Olympic Regatta Racecourse, Grünau, Germany; Introduction; 1. Rowing, Radio, and American Sports Broadcasting, 1925-36; 2. "Let's Go to Berlin": The Olympic Trials, the Boycott Movement, and Broadcast Preparations; 3. Berlin 1936 as Global Broadcast Spectacle and Personal Experience; 4. Live from Hitler's Reich: Transmitting the Games and the Listener's Experience; 5. Six Minutes in Grünau: The Olympic Regatta as the High Spot of the Berlin Games; Conclusion: The Berlin Olympic Games and Global Sports Broadcasting; Notes; Index.

Summary: The Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936. German rowers, dominant at the Games, line up against America's top eight-oared crew. Hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide wait by their radios. Leni Riefenstahl prepares her cameramen. Grantland Rice looks past the 75,000 spectators crowding the riverbank. Above it all, the Nazi leadership, flush with the propaganda triumph the Olympics have given their New Germany, await a crowning victory they can broadcast to the world. The Berlin Games matched cutting-edge communication technology with compelling sports narrative to draw the blueprint for all future sports broadcasting. Michael J. Socolow's account moves from the era's technological innovations to the human drama of how the race changed the lives of nine young men.

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The Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936. German rowers, dominant at the Games, line up against America's top eight-oared crew. Hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide wait by their radios. Leni Riefenstahl prepares her cameramen. Grantland Rice looks past the 75,000 spectators crowding the riverbank. Above it all, the Nazi leadership, flush with the propaganda triumph the Olympics have given their New Germany, await a crowning victory they can broadcast to the world. The Berlin Games matched cutting-edge communication technology with compelling sports narrative to draw the blueprint for all future sports broadcasting. Michael J. Socolow's account moves from the era's technological innovations to the human drama of how the race changed the lives of nine young men.

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