National identity and global sports events
Subtitle: culture, politics, and spectacle in the Olympics and the football World Cup
By: edited by Alan Tomlinson and Christopher Young.
Contributors: Tomlinson, Alan.; Young, Christopher, 1967-
Series: SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Nationalism and sports -- History; Sports and globalization -- History; Sports -- Sociological aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Description: vii, 244 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture, politics and spectacle in the global sports event : an introduction / Alan Tomlinson and Christopher Young; title: The theory of spectacle : reviewing Olympic ethnography / John J. MacAloon; title: Italy 1934 : football and fascism / Robert S.C. Gordon and John London; title: Berlin 1936 : the most controversial Olympics / Allen Guttmann; title: England 1966, Goal! : the myth of the golden age / Tony Mason; title: Mexico city 1968 : sombreros and skyscrapers / Keith and Claire Brewster; title: Munich 1972 : re-presenting the nation / Christopher Young; title: Argentina 1978 : military nationalism, football essentialism, and moral ambivalence / Eduardo Archetti; title: Moscow 1980 : Stalinism or good clean fun? / Robert Edelman; title: Los Angeles 1984 and 1932 : commercialising the American dream / Alan Tomlinson; title: Barcelona 1992 : evaluating the Olympic legacy / Miquel de Moragas and Christopher Kennett; title: Sydney 2000 : sociality and spaciality in global media events / Deborah Stevenson and David Rowe; title: Japan/Korea 2002 : public space and popular celebration.