Garry Whannel

Culture, Politics and Sport

Blowing the Whistle, Revisited

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book on politics and sport, contains critical analyses of the commercialisation of sport, and also includes a complete reprint of the author's classic 1983 study Blowing the Whistle: The Politics of Sport.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780415417075
• ISBN-10: 0415417074
• Artikelnr.: 23255978

Autorenporträt

Garry Whannel is Professor of Media Cultures and Director of the Centre for International Media Analysis at the University of Bedfordshire.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Politics of Sport 1. Introduction 2. The Complete Original Text
of Blowing the Whistle: The Politics of Sport 3. Profiting by the Presence
of Ideals: Sponsorship and Olympism 4. Sport and Popular Culture: The
Temporary Triumph of Process over Product Part 2: Sport, Cultural Politics
and Political Culture since 1983 5. Pleasures, Commodities and Spaces 6.
Nations, Identities, Celebrities and Bodies 7. Globalisation: The Global
and the Local 8. Back to Politics