Watching the Olympics : politics, power and representation / / edited by John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson

• 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SugdenJohn Peter TomlinsonAlan
• 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: 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.: 9910451621603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II