National identity and global sports events :  culture, politics, and spectacle in the Olympics and the football World Cup / 
edited by Alan Tomlinson and Christopher Young. 
 - vii, 244 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations .
 - SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Culture, politics and spectacle in the global sports event : an introduction / Alan Tomlinson and Christopher Young -- The theory of spectacle : reviewing Olympic ethnography / John J. MacAloon -- Italy 1934 : football and fascism / Robert S.C. Gordon and John London -- Berlin 1936 : the most controversial Olympics / Allen Guttmann -- England 1966, Goal! : the myth of the golden age / Tony Mason -- Mexico city 1968 : sombreros and skyscrapers / Keith and Claire Brewster -- Munich 1972 : re-presenting the nation / Christopher Young -- Argentina 1978 : military nationalism, football essentialism, and moral ambivalence / Eduardo Archetti -- Moscow 1980 : Stalinism or good clean fun? / Robert Edelman -- Los Angeles 1984 and 1932 : commercialising the American dream / Alan Tomlinson -- Barcelona 1992 : evaluating the Olympic legacy / Miquel de Moragas and Christopher Kennett -- Sydney 2000 : sociality and spaciality in global media events / Deborah Stevenson and David Rowe -- Japan/Korea 2002 : public space and popular celebration. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0791466159 9780791466155 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004029962 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nationalism and sports--History<br/>Sports and globalization--History<br/>Sports--Sociological aspects--Cross-cultural studies
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV706.34  / .N38 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.483