By D.P. Martinez,Kevin Latham
ISBN-10: 0415575486
ISBN-13: 9780415575485
ISBN-10: 1138880574
ISBN-13: 9781138880573
This publication makes a speciality of the methods of documenting the Beijing Olympics – starting from the visible (television and movie) to radio and the written note – and the meanings generated via such representations. What have been the ‘key’ tales and the way have been they selected? What used to be dramatised? Who have been the heroes? Which ‘clashes’ have been highlighted and the way? What forms of tales did the idea of ‘human curiosity’ generate? Did politics take a backseat or used to be the subject highlighted time and again? hence, the focal point used to be no longer at the luck or failure of this occasion, yet at the ways that the Olympics video games, as overseas and ancient occasions, are memorialised by way of observers.
The key query that this e-book addresses is: How some distance could the Olympic assurance fall into the styles of illustration that experience come to dominate Olympic reporting and what might China, as a discursive topic, deliver to those patterns?
This booklet was once formerly released as a distinct factor of Sport in Society.
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