A history of sports highlights : replayed plays from Edison to ESPN /

A history of sports highlights : replayed plays from Edison to ESPN /

"This book traces the development and popularity of the sportscast highlight as the primary means of communicating about sports and athletes. It delves into the intricate relationships between media producers, sports leagues and organizations, and audiences, and explains that the sportscast hig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gamache, Ray, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2010]
Subjects:
Television broadcasting of sports > United States > History.
Sports journalism > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the highlight mythmaking machine
  • Knockout rounds and rounding marks
  • The habit of highlights
  • Bad habits
  • A dream of carnage and the electronic monster
  • The agony and the ecstasy of communication
  • Sports junkies, junk journalism and cathode ray sterilization
  • The little shop of highlights
  • The real virtuality for an audience of one
  • Highlights and history.