Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics by Socolow, Michael J.
Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics by Socolow, Michael J.

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...
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Author: Michael J. Socolow
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Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics by Socolow, Michael J.

Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics

$89.48
Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics by Socolow, Michael J.

Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics

$89.48
Author: Michael J. Socolow
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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. A global audience--the largest cohort of humanity ever assembled--enjoyed the spectacle via radio. This still-novel medium offered a liveness, a thrilling immediacy no other technology had ever matched. 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. As he shows, the origins of global sports broadcasting can be found in this single, forgotten contest. In those origins we see the ways the presentation, consumption, and uses of sport changed forever.

Author: Michael J. Socolow
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 10/14/2016
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780252082214


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/15/2016 pg. 11
Choice 06/01/2017

About the Author
Michael J. Socolow is an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Slate.com, and the Chicago Tribune.


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