Departmental Papers (ASC)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
1996
Publication Source
The Communication Review
Volume
2
Issue
2
Start Page
235
Last Page
257
DOI
10.1080/10714429709368558
Abstract
The visit of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat to Jerusalem was the model for Dayan and Katz's conceptualization of the genre of media events, as live programs which have the power to transform history. Fifteen years later, a series of televised reconciliation ceremonies, which marked the stages of the peace process between Israel and its Arab neighbors (the Palestinians and the Jordanians), are used to re-examine the model. We demonstrate (1) how the effectiveness of these ceremonies depends on the type of contract among the three participants-leaders, broadcasters and public-each of whom displays different kinds of reservations, and (2) how the aura of the ceremonies draws on the prior status of the participants (Hussein), but also confers status (Arafat).
Copyright/Permission Statement
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in The Communication Review, 1997, © Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10714429709368558.
Recommended Citation
Liebes, T., & Katz, E. (1996). Staging Peace: Televised Ceremonies of Reconciliation. The Communication Review, 2 (2), 235-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714429709368558
Date Posted: 19 April 2011