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Barbaric sport : a global plague / Marc Perelman ; translated by John Howe.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2012Description: x, 134 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1844678598
  • 9781844678594
  • 1844679136
  • 9781844679133
Uniform titles:
  • Sport barbare. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483 23
LOC classification:
  • GV706.35 .P47513 2012
Contents:
The real nature of the Olympic Games: Berlin 1936, Moscow 1980, the football World Cup, Argentina 1978 -- Beijing 2008: the games of shame -- The Olympic charter -- Competitive sport: globalized sports-spectacle and national fetish -- Sport: as old as the world? -- Origin and development of the theses on the critique of sport -- The stadium: consolidation of the masses -- Sport, culture and youth -- The sporting champion: addiction and drugs -- The globalization of sport through doping -- The globalization of sport and the sporting mode of production -- The show stadium -- The power of images -- A standardized aesthetic -- Sexuality, homosexuality and sport -- The religion of sport -- The critique of sport as it was -- The arrival of sport as an academic discipline -- The future of the critique of sport.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-134).

The real nature of the Olympic Games: Berlin 1936, Moscow 1980, the football World Cup, Argentina 1978 -- Beijing 2008: the games of shame -- The Olympic charter -- Competitive sport: globalized sports-spectacle and national fetish -- Sport: as old as the world? -- Origin and development of the theses on the critique of sport -- The stadium: consolidation of the masses -- Sport, culture and youth -- The sporting champion: addiction and drugs -- The globalization of sport through doping -- The globalization of sport and the sporting mode of production -- The show stadium -- The power of images -- A standardized aesthetic -- Sexuality, homosexuality and sport -- The religion of sport -- The critique of sport as it was -- The arrival of sport as an academic discipline -- The future of the critique of sport.

Translated from French.

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