Watching the Olympics : Politics, Power and Representation

ISBN-13: 9780415578325 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str.

John Sugden; Alan Tomlinson

Opis

This challenging and provocative new work explores the Olympic spectacle, from the the multi-media bidding process and the branding and imaging of the Games to security, surveillance and control of the Olympic product across all of its levels.

Spis treści

1. Lording it: London and the getting of the Games  2. Pierre de Coubertin and the Modern Olympic Ideals: Myth, Evolution, or Betrayal?  3. The Promise of Olympism  4. The Olympics as Sovereign Subject Maker  5. The Technicolor Olympics? Race, Representation and the 2012 London Games  6. Youth Sport and London’s 2012 Olympic Legacy  7. Doping and the Olympics: Rights, Responsibilities and Accountabilities (Watching the Athletes)  8. The Olympic Documentary and the ‘Spirit of Olympism’  9. Torchlight Temptations: Hosting the Olympics and the Global Gaze  10. Taste, Ambiguity and the Cultural Olympiad  11. Sex Watch: Surveying Women’s Sexed and Gendered Bodies at the Olympics  12. Children of a Lesser God: Paralympics and High-Performance Sport  13. The Olympic Movement, Action Sports, and the Search for Generation Y  14. Team GB, the Bards of Britishness and a Disunited kingdom  15. The View from the Pressbox: Rose-Tinted Spectacle?  16. Watched by the Games: Surveillance and Security at the Olympics  17. Afterword: ‘No Other Anything …’: The Olympic Games Yesterday and Today