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Six minutes in Berlin : broadcast spectacle and rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics /

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 riv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Socolow, Michael J., 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
Colección:Studies in sports media.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.