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Summer 1998
June 01 1998
Firewalking: A Contemporary Ritual and Transformation
Emily D. Edwards
Emily D. Edwards
Former producer and reporter for ABC and NBC afiliates in Alabama and Tennessee. She received her PhD in 1983 fiom the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She taught production and directed the Broadcasting Sequence at the University of Alabama, Bimingham from 1983–1997. She currently teaches in the Broadcasting/Cinema Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is married to computer graphics illustrator and consultant, Doug Mokaren
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Emily D. Edwards
Former producer and reporter for ABC and NBC afiliates in Alabama and Tennessee. She received her PhD in 1983 fiom the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She taught production and directed the Broadcasting Sequence at the University of Alabama, Bimingham from 1983–1997. She currently teaches in the Broadcasting/Cinema Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is married to computer graphics illustrator and consultant, Doug Mokaren
Online ISSN: 1531-4715
Print ISSN: 1054-2043
© 1998 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1998
TDR/The Drama Review (1998) 42 (2 (158)): 98–114.
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Emily D. Edwards; Firewalking: A Contemporary Ritual and Transformation. TDR/The Drama Review 1998; 42: 2 (158), 98–114. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.1998.42.2.98
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