| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Post-Olympism?/ edited by John Bale and Mette Krogh Christensen. |
| Reminder of title: |
questioning sport in the Twenty-first century / |
| remainder title: |
Questioning sport in the twenty-first century |
| other author: |
Bale, John. |
| Published: |
Oxford, Eng. ;Berg, : c2004., |
| Description: |
xv, 276 p. ;25 cm. |
| Series: |
Global sport cultures |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Post-▍ympism? : questioning ▍ympic historiography / Douglas Booth -- "What's the difference between propaganda for tourism or for a political regime?" : was the 1936 Olympics the first postmodern spectacle? / Arnd Kr鋎ger -- China and Olympism/ Susan Brownell -- The global, the popular, and the inter-popular : Olympic sport between market, state, and civil society / Henning Eichberg -- Cosmopolitan Olympism, humanism, and the spectacle of "race"/ Ben Carrington -- Post-Olympism : Olympic legacies, sport spaces, and the practices of everyday life / Douglas Brown -- The future of a multi-sport mega-event : is there a place for the Olympic Games in a "Post-Olympic" world?/ Richard Cashman -- Making the world safe for global capital : the Sydney 2000 Olympics and beyond / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj -- The Disneyfication of the Olympics? : theme parks and freak-shows of the body/ Alan Tomlinson -- Essence of Post-Olympism : a prolegomena of study / Synthia Sydnor -- Sportive nationalism and globalization / John Hoberman -- The vulnerability thesis and its consequences : a critique of specialization in Olympic sport/ Sigmund Loland -- Doping and the Olympic Games from an aesthetic perspective / Verner M烽ler -- Post-Olympism and the aestheticization of sport / S猛en Damkj皴 -- Laying Olympism to rest / Kevin B. Wamsley. |
| Subject: |
Olympics - Philosophy. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=130455An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1417598018 (electronic bk.) |