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Titolo |
Watching the Olympics : politics, power and representation / / edited by John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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1-136-97485-7 |
9786613639035 |
1-280-66210-7 |
1-136-97486-5 |
0-203-85220-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SugdenJohn Peter |
TomlinsonAlan |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mass media and sports |
Olympics - History |
Olympics - Political aspects |
Olympics - Sociological aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Lording it : London and the getting of the Games / Alan Tomlinson -- 2. The ideals of the founding father : mythologised, evolved or betrayed? / Lincoln Allison -- 3. The promise of Olympism / Graham McFee -- 4. The Olympics as sovereign subject maker / Thomas F. Carter -- 5. The technicolor Olympics? : race, representation and the 2012 London Games / Daniel Burdsey -- 6. Youth sport and London's 2012 Olympic legacy / Marc Keech -- 7. Doping and the Olympics : rights, responsibilities and accountabilities (watching the athletes) / Barrie Houlihan -- 8. The Olympic documentary and the 'spirit of Olympism' / Ian McDonald -- 9. Torchlight temptations : hosting the Olympics and the global gaze / David Rowe and Jim McKay -- 10. Taste, ambiguity and the cultural Olympiad / Shane Collins and Catherine Palmer -- 11. Sex watch : surveying women's sexed and gendered bodies at the Olympics / Jayne Caudwell -- 12. Children of a lesser god : paralympics and high-performance sport / P. David Howe |
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-- 13. The Olympic movement, action sports, and the search for Generation Y / Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton -- 14. Team GB, the bards of Britishness and a disunited kingdom / Mark Perryman -- 15. The view from the pressbox : rose-tinted spectacle? / Rob Steen -- 16. Watched by the Games : surveillance and security at the Olympics / John Sugden -- 17. Afterword : 'no other anything.' : the Olympic Games yesterday and today / John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson. |
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