Watching the Olympics : politics, power and representation / / edited by John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson
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| Titolo: |
Watching the Olympics : politics, power and representation / / edited by John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson
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| Pubblicazione: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | xiii, 258 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 796.48 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mass media and sports |
| Olympics - History | |
| Olympics - Political aspects | |
| Olympics - Sociological aspects | |
| Altri autori: |
SugdenJohn Peter
TomlinsonAlan
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Watching the Olympics |
| ISBN: | 1-136-97485-7 |
| 9786613639035 | |
| 1-280-66210-7 | |
| 1-136-97486-5 | |
| 0-203-85220-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779024103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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