Research Catalog

Title

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.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tomlinson, Alan.
• Young, Christopher, 1967-

Description

vii, 244 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"National Identity and Global Sports Events looks at the significance of international sporting events and why they generate enormous audiences worldwide. Focusing on the Olympic Games and the men's football (soccer) World Cup, the contributors examine the political, cultural, economic, and ideological influences that frame these events. Selected case studies include the 1936 Nazi Olympics in Berlin, the 1934 World Cup Finals in Italy, the unique case of the 1972 Munich Games, the transformative 1984 Games in Los Angeles, and the 2002 Asian World Cup Finals, among others. The case studies show how the Olympics and the World Cup Finals provide a basis for the articulation of entrenched and dominant political ideologies, encourage persisting senses of national identity, and act as barometers for the changing ideological climate of the modern and increasingly globalized contemporary world. Through rigorous scholarly analyses, the book's contributors help to illuminate the increasing significance of large-scale sporting events on the international stage."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations

Subject

• Nationalism and sports > History
• Sports and globalization > History
• Sports > Sociological aspects > Cross-cultural studies
• Sports > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies

Genre/Form

• Cross-cultural studies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 0791466159 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780791466155 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0791466167 (pbk.)
• 9780791466162 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004029962

OCLC

• 57349033
• SCSB-11116169

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library