Research Catalog

Title

Olympic perspectives : third International Symposium for Olympic Research / editors, Robert K. Barney ... [et al.].

Author

International Symposium for Olympic Research (3rd : 1996 : University of Western Ontario)

Publication

London : Centre for Olympic Studies, University of Western Ontario, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Barney, Robert Knight, 1932-
• University of Western Ontario. Centre for Olympic Studies.

Description

275 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Subject

• Olympics > Congresses
• Jeux olympiques > Congrès

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Cover title.
• "October 1996".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The five rings of Olympic music / William K. Guegold -- Female charioteers in Greek antiquity : image or reality? / Wendy J. Raschke -- Pierre de Coubertin's Ruskianism / Andy Krüger -- Revisiting the discourses of art, beauty and sport from the 1906 Consultative Conference for the Arts, Literature and Sport / Douglas Brown -- Scripting the American Olympic story-telling formula : the 1924 Paris Olympic games and the American media / Mark Dyreson -- Women and power in the modern Olympic movement / Judy Bischoff & Jan Rintala -- 'Much ado about nothing' : the International Olympic Committee, Monarch Media, and sub-Saharan television rights for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics / Stephen R. Wenn -- Towards an impasse : an examination of the negotiations behind the inclusion of the United States Olympic Committee in TOP (the Olympic program) / Scott G. Martyn -- Olympic ideology and Jewish values : conflict or accomodation? / George Eisen --^
• Regime dreams and institutional themes : on the origins of the relationships between the IOC and international sports federations / Gordon MacDonald -- Avery Brundage and the internationalization of the Olympic Games / Maynard Brichford -- Towards the essential meaning of fair play as an aspiration of Olympism / Deborah P. McDonald -- Dewey's Olympics : the 1932 Lake Placid games / John Allen -- 'Don't mess with the relay, It's bad nedicine' : aboriginal culture and the 1988 Winter Olympic games / K.B. Wamsley & Mike Heine -- Sharing the spirit or manufacturing consent? Sydney 2000, Olympic sport and the Australian media / Helen Lenskyj -- Taking shape : issues for further study in the records of the XV Calgary WInter Olympic games / Glennda Leslie -- The film 'Tokyo Olympiad' : a conflict between artistic representation and documentary / Naofumi Masumoto -- Sport, science and gender : towards a feminist perspective of sport science / Alexi Peters --^
• A brief comment on the IOC secretariat in transformation / Karl Wendl -- Aesthetics and sport in the Olympic Flame torch relay / Elizabeth Hanley -- Danish women's gymnastics : an Olympic success story / Elsa Trangbaek -- Challenges and models for successful Olympic education initiatives at the grassroots level / Deanna Binder -- Values as guiding principles in the administration of Olympic sports in Singapore / Nick Aplin -- The Winter games : their contribution to world-wide Olympic consciousness / Ljubisa Zecevic.

ISBN

077141918X

LCCN

cn^97001002^

OCLC

• 36342932
• SCSB-11525567

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library