1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785973503321

Autore

Garcia Beatriz

Titolo

The Olympic Games and cultural policy / / Beatriz Garcia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-33598-6

1-283-70900-7

0-203-12292-5

1-136-33599-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; ; 12

Classificazione

SPO000000SPO058000SPO066000

Disciplina

796.48

Soggetti

Olympics - Social aspects

Olympics - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Cultural policy and the Olympics movement -- pt. II. The Olympic games cultural programme : Olympic arts festivals in Sydney 2000 -- pt. III. Towards a culture-led Olympic games?

Sommario/riassunto

"This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design, management and promotion of the Olympic Games. Garcia examines the concept and evolution of cultural policies throughout the recent history of the Olympic Games and then specifically evaluates the cultural program of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She argues that the cultural relevance of a major event is highly dependent on the consistency of the policy choices informing its cultural dimensions, and demonstrates how such events frequently fail to leave long-term cultural legacies, and are often unable to provide an experience that fully engages and represents the host community, due to their over-emphasis on an economic rather than a social and cultural agenda"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962335903321

Titolo

National identities and post-Americanist narratives / / Donald E. Pease, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, N.C. : , : Duke University Press, , 1994

ISBN

9780822314929

0822314924

9780822377757

0822377756

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Altri autori (Persone)

PeaseDonald E

Disciplina

813.009

Soggetti

American literature - History and criticism

National characteristics, American, in literature

Motion pictures - United States - History

National characteristics, American, in motion pictures

Minorities in motion pictures

Minorities in literature

Narration (Rhetoric)

United States Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The text of this book originally was published without the present preface, index, and essays by Lindberg and Rowe as vol. 19, no. 1 of Boundary 2"--Title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

National Identities, Postmodern Artifacts and Postnational Narratives / Donald E. Pease -- Nationalism, Hypercanonization, and Huckleberry Finn / Jonathan Arac -- The Politics of Nonidentity: A Genealogy / Ross Posnock -- As I Lay Dying in the Machine Age / John T. Matthews -- Failed Cultural Narratives: America in the Postwar Era and the Story of Democracy / Alan Nadel -- Resisting History: Rear Window and the Limits of the Postwar Settlement / Robert J. Corber -- Queer Nationality / Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman -- Engendering Paranoia in Contemporary Narrative / Patrick O'Donnell -- Techno-euphoria and the Discourse of the American Sublime / Rob Wilson -- On Becoming Oneself in Frank Lentricchia / Daniel O'Hara -- Melville's Typee: U.S.



Imperialism at Home and Abroad / John Carlos Rowe -- Mass Circulation versus The Masses: Covering the Modern Magazine Scene / Kathryne V. Lindberg.

Sommario/riassunto

National narratives create imaginary relations within imagined communities called national peoples. But in the American narrative, alongside the nexus of belonging established for the national community, the national narrative has represented other peoples (women, blacks, "foreigners", people experiencing homelessness) from whom the property of nationness has been removed altogether and upon whose differences from them the national people depended for the construction of their norms. Dismantling this opposition has become the task of post-national (Post-Americanist) narratives, bent on changing the assumptions that found the "national identity."This volume, originally published as a special issue of bounrary 2, focuses on the process of assembling and dismantling the American national narrative(s), sketching its inception and demolition. The contributors examine various cultural, political, and historical sources--colonial literature, mass movements, epidemics of disease, mass spectacle, transnational corporations, super-weapons, popular magazines, literary texts--out of which this narrative was constructed, and propose different understandings of nationality and identity following in its wake.Contributors. Jonathan Arac, Lauren Berlant, Robert J. Corber, Elizabeth Freeman, Kathryn V. Lingberg, Jack Matthews, Alan Nadel, Patrick O'Donnell, Daniel O'Hara, Donald E. Pease, Ross Posnock, John Carlos Rowe, Rob Wilson