Research Catalog

Title

Rethinking the Olympics : cultural histories of the modern Games / Robert K. Barney, editor.

Publication

Morgantown, WV : Fitness Information Technology, c2010.

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Additional Authors

Barney, Robert K. (Robert Knight), 1932-

Description

xii, 491 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This anthology of essays, previously published in Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies, addresses key themes in the scholarly study of the Games. Part I of Rethinking the Olympics presents seven articles devoted to Olympic history: the Games' legacy from antiquity, their modern evolution, and the most controversial Games of the modern era, the Berlin Games of 1936. Part II reviews the persistent problems and crises that confounded and defined the Olympic Games over time. The nine essays in this section focus on a variety of issues such as: performance enhancement; the rise of commercialism; enduring controversies in the form of leadership, corruption, and the Cold War; and the politics of hosting Olympic Games. Finally, in Part III, the future of the Modern Olympic Movement is addressed from the perspective of the rapidly accelerating and mushrooming process of globalization. Publisher's note.

Subject

• Jeux olympiques > Antiquité / 20e s
• Olympische Spiele
• Olympics > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part I. setting the stage. Section I. The legacy of antiquity. Stadium and arena: reflections on Greek, Roman, and contemporary social history / Michael B. Poliakoff -- The Olympic games 393 A.D.-1896 A.D.: the genealogy of an idea in literature, music, and dance / Jeffry O. Segrave -- On the source of the Olympic credo / Davic C. Young -- More on the Olympic saying, it's more important / David C. Young -- Section II. Modern evolution. Coubertin's ideology of Olympism from the perspective of the history of ideas / Sigmund Loland -- Cosmopolitanism, Olympism, and nationalism: a critical interpretation of Coubertin's ideal of international sporting life / William J. Morgan -- Section III. The most controversial games -- Berlin 1936. France, Coubertin, and the Nazi Olympics: the response / W.J. Murray -- The Nazi Olympics: a reinterpretation / James M. Pitsula.
• Part II. Persistent problems, issues, and crises. Section I. Performance enhancement. "Cells or soaring?": historical reflections on vision of the body, athletics, and modern Olympism / Roberta J. Park -- Sport, drugs, and the Cold War: the conundrum of Olympic doping policy, 1970-1979 / Thomas M. Hunt -- Section II. The rise of commercialism. Marketing national identity: the Olympic games of 1932 and American culture / Mark Dyreson -- Family Feud: revenue and IOC-USOC relations / Robert K. Barney, Stephen R. Wenn, Scott G. Martyn -- Section III. Enduring controversies. The rise and fall of soviet Olympic champions / Jim Riordan -- Persistent resistance: leadership positions for women in Olympic sport governing bodies / Jan Rintala and Judith A. Bischoff -- Gifts of corruption? Ambiguities of obligation in the Olympic movement / Douglas Booth -- Section IV. The politics of hosting Olympic games. Olympic hosting in Canada: promotional ambitions, political challenges / David Whitson -- The "Mormon games": religion, media, cultural politics and the Salt Lake winter games / Larry R. Gerlach -- Part III. Globalization and facing the future. Modern sport and Olympic games: the problematic complexities raised by the dynamics of globalization / Deane Neubauer.

ISBN

• 9781935412052
• 1935412051

OCLC

• 457146522
• SCSB-10652154

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library