Watching the Olympics : politics, power and representation /
Sugden, John Peter.
Tomlinson, Alan.
London : Routledge,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lording it: London and the getting of the Games / Alan Tomlinson -- The ideals of the founding father: mythologized, evolved or betrayed? / Lincoln Allison -- The promise of Olympism / Graham McFee -- The Olympics as sovereign subject maker / Thomas F. Carter -- The technicolor Olympics? Race, representation and the 2012 London Games / Daniel Burdsey -- Youth sport and London's 2012 Olympic legacy / Marc Keech -- Doping and the Olympics: rights, responsibilities and accountabilities (watching the athletes) / Barrie Houlihan -- The Olympic documentary and the 'spirit of Olympism' / Ian McDonald -- Torchlight temptations: hosting the Olympics and the global gaze / David Rowe and Jim McKay -- Taste, ambiguity and the Cultural Olympiad / Shane Collins and Catherine Palmer -- Sex watch: surveying women's sexed and gendered bodies at the Olympics / Jayne Caudwell -- Children of a lesser God: Paralympics and high-performance sport / P. David Howe -- The Olympic Movement, action sports, and the search for Generation Y / Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton -- Team GB, the bards of Britishness and a disunited kingdom / Mark Perryman -- The view from the pressbox: rose-tinted spectacle? / Rob Steen -- Watched by the games: surveillance and security at the Olympics / John Sugden -- Afterword. 'No other anything ...': the Olympic Games yesterday and today / John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson.
Olympics
Olympics
Olympics
Mass media and sports.