National identity and global sports events : culture, politics, and spectacle in the Olympics and the football World Cup / edited by Alan Tomlinson and Christopher Young.
| Uniform Title: | SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
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| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2006], ©2006.
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| Series: | SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
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| Physical Description: | vii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Culture, politics, and spectacle in the global sports event : an introduction / Alan Tomlinson and Christopher Young
- The theory of spectacle : reviewing Olympic ethnography / John J. MacAloon
- Italy 1934 : football and fascism / Robert S.C. Gordon and John London
- Berlin 1936 : the most controversial Olympics / Allen Guttmann
- England 1966 : traditional and modern? / Tony Mason
- Mexico city 1968 : sombreros and skyscrapers / Keith and Claire Brewster
- Munich 1972 : re-presenting the nation / Christopher Young
- Argentina 1978 : military nationalism, football essentialism, and moral ambivalence / Eduardo P. Archetti
- Moscow 1980 : Stalinism or good, clean fun? / Robert Edelman
- Los Angeles 1984 and 1932 : commercialising the American dream / Alan Tomlinson
- Barcelona 1992 : evaluating the Olympic legacy / Miquel de Moragas and Christopher Kennett
- Sydney 2000 : sociality and spaciality in global media events / Deborah Stevenson and David Rowe
- Korea and Japan 2002 : public space and popular celebration / Soon-Hee Whang.