In Pursuit Of The Ineffable: How Television Found The Eclipse But Lost The Plot  

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Marriott, Stephanie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Media, Culture & Society vol. 23 no. 6 (Nov. 2001), page 725-742.
Topik: connectivity; disenchantment; eclipse; live; media event; television
Fulltext: 725MCS236.pdf (72.82KB)

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Conventionally, live television constructs the event by bringing together many spatially dispersed occurrences and articulating them through the electronic mediation of the broadcast. This article discusses one live event – the total solar eclipse in August 1999 – for which this ‘complex connectivity’ at the heart of the event was to prove deeply problematic. In the case of the eclipse, what was at stake was not a set of different but related occurrences but rather the same occurrence – the singular and liminal moment of totality – as it occurred and re-occurred in different places. Caught up in a set of contradictory imperatives – to produce the moment, to deliver to the viewer a sense of ‘being there’ but also to deliver the everywhere of the occasion – television mislaid the event.

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