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 the 1936 Olympics
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DESCRIPTION:Join the Visual Studies Research Institute for the 2026 Anne Fr
 iedberg Memorial Lecture\, delivered by Jessica Hanson\, Ph.D. Candidate\,
  USC Department of Art History.\n\n \n\nThe 1936 Berlin Olympic Games rema
 in one of the most infamous sporting events of the twentieth century. Held
  three years into Hitler’s regime\, they are often portrayed in scholars
 hip and popular culture as a confrontation of ideologies as much as a clas
 h of athletes—a test of the purported peacefulness and internationalism 
 of the modern Olympic project in the shadow of the violence and discrimina
 tion of the Nazi worldview. Although many scholars have explored the 1936 
 Olympics as a mass propaganda event\, few have considered the publicity su
 rrounding developing visualization technologies as key to the capture\, di
 ssemination and reception of the Games as a “historic” media event. Wh
 ere cameras are considered in scholarship\, analysis largely centers on th
 e filming of Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia (1938) films\, which were releas
 ed two years after the Olympics had ended. In focusing on the public discu
 ssions and depictions of media technologies covering the 1936 Games\, such
  as photo finish cameras\, long focus lenses and early television\, this t
 alk will elucidate how such camera developments were integral to the Germa
 n people’s reception of the athletic events as history-in-the-making. Ce
 ntering the camera’s role in constructing the 1936 Olympics as a seminal
  event in sports—and world—history will nuance understandings of how i
 mage dissemination and reproduction technologies engendered mass sporting 
 spectacle as we know it today.\n\n \n\nJessica Hanson is a PhD candidate i
 n Art History at the University of Southern California\, where she special
 izes in the history of photography. Her dissertation\, “Sports\, Illustr
 ated: The Making of the Global Image in Sports Photography\, 1900-1974\,
 ” examines sports photography and f ilm in the twentieth century as exte
 nsions of the art historical tradition of capturing the body in motion. Je
 ssica’s research has been supported by the USC Visual Studies Research I
 nstitute\, the Central European History Society\, the French Embassy to th
 e United States and the Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust. She is a pro
 ud recipient of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate.
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LOCATION:Social Sciences Building (SOS)\, 250
SUMMARY:World Records\, World’s Stage: Photography\, Television and the 1
 936 Olympics
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 tography-television-and-the-1936-olympics
CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop
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