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Did Grace Kelly Shed a Tear? The Monegasque Royal Wedding as a Disruptive Television Event

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dc.creatorEllis, John
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-24T13:46:11Z
dc.date.available2020-08-24T13:46:11Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-16
dc.description.abstractEarly television reveals the radical nature of the new medium as well as many of its affordances that were later rejected. The coverage of the Monegasque Royal Wedding of Prince Rainier of Monaco and Grace Kelly exposes the differences between cinema newsreels and live TV, and how, even at a public event, TV could invade the personal space of its subjects. Like a detective, the author reconstructs how this historical event was covered by film and TV, and how that footage was later re-used. The montage of the footage in different contexts encourages the audience to suppose that Grace Kelly might have shed a tear during the wedding ceremony.   While this question might seem ridiculous to a republican, it is important for our understanding of celebrity in modern culture. The author’s answer to the question reveals the media historical meaning of both the media event, its coverage and the possible existence of that tear.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/2213-0969.2018.jethc138
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14739
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15717
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFernsehende
dc.subjectaccessen
dc.subjectroyal weddingen
dc.subjectarchival footageen
dc.subjecttelevision eventen
dc.subjectintimacyen
dc.subjectLive Televisionen
dc.subject.ddcddc:070
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personGrace Kelly
dc.subject.personPrince Rainier of Monaco
dc.titleDid Grace Kelly Shed a Tear? The Monegasque Royal Wedding as a Disruptive Television Eventen
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T06:12:04
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2018.jethc138
local.source.epage18
local.source.issue13
local.source.spage6
local.source.volume7
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local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118921053
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3925
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