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Mega-events and social change : Spectacle, legacy and public culture /
Contemporary mega-events like Olympics and Expos, together with the organisations which control them, can be risky and controversial projects. This book interprets how they reflect, but also mark and influence, deeper social changes in each of the three social spheres of the media, cities and global...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; 1. Mega-events and macro-social change; Part I. Mega-events and media change; 2. Mega-events and mediatisation: between old and new media; 3. The digital age, media sport and mega-events: piracy and symbiosis in the cultural industries; Part II. Mega-events, legacy and urban change; 4. Embedding mega-events: staging spectacles in changing cities; 5. Mega-events and urban development: Olympics and legacies.
- 6. Mega-events, urban space and social change: Expos, parks and cities; Part III. Mega-events and global change in East and West; 7. Mega-events, globalisation and urban legacy: events in China in the early twenty-first century; 8. Mega-events, glocalisation and urban legacy: London as an event city and the 2012 Olympics; References; Index.