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Watching the Olympics : Politics, Power and Representation.

Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cultural form is the Olympic Games. This challenging and provocative new book explores the Olympic spectacle, from the multi-media bidding pro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sugden, John
Otros Autores: Tomlinson, Alan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front Cover; Watching the Olympics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 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. 
505 8 |a 7. Doping and the Olympics: rights, responsibilities and accountabilities (watching the athletes): Barrie Houlihan8. 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 highperformance sport: P. David Howe. 
505 8 |a 13. The Olympic Movement, action sports, and the search for Generation Y: Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton14. 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 a tthe Olympics: John Sugden; 17. Afterword. 'No other anything . . .': The Olympic Games yesterday and today: John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson; Index. 
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