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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Socolow, Michael J., 1968- author.

Series:

Studies in sports media

Studies in Sports Media

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olympic Games--(11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany)--Press coverage.

Olympic Games.

Radio broadcasting of sports--Germany--History--20th century.

Radio broadcasting of sports.

Rowing--History--20th century.

Rowing.

Press coverage.

History.

Germany.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]

Summary:

The Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936. German rowers, dominant at the Games, line up against America's top eight-oared crew. A global audience-the largest cohort of humanity ever assembled-waits to experience the spectacle via radio. The Nazi leadership, flush with the propaganda triumph the Olympics have given their New Germany, await a crowning victory to broadcast to the world. The Berlin Games matched cutting-edge communication technology with compelling narrative to draw the blueprint for all future sports broadcasting. Michael J. Socolow's enthralling story of this forgotten event moves from the era's technological innovations to the human drama of how the race changed the lives of nine young men. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Rowing, Radio, and American Sports Broadcasting, 1925-36 21

2 "Let's Go to Berlin": The Olympic Trials, the Boycott Movement, and Broadcast Preparations 55

3 Berlin 1936 as Global Broadcast Spectacle and Personal Experience 87

4 Live from Hitler's Reich: Transmitting tire Games and the Listener's Experience 131

5 Six Minutes in Grünau: The Olympic Regatta as the High Spot of the Berlin Games 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252040702

0252040708

9780252082214

0252082214

OCLC:

946905385