Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event F. Stevens Redburn

Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event F. Stevens RedburnSports, and in particular the Olympic Games, are enjoying a rapid increase in interest among social scientists worldwide, who see them as important "public events." This volume offers the first analysis of the Winter Olympic Games, primarily based on the Lillehammer Games of 1994. The authors identify "olympism" as a key agent in the modernization process and, more specifically, ask how the winter games, as a mega event, relate to Norwegian culture

The first comprehensive guide to filmic representations of São Paulo

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She concludes that four factors in particular-transgression

other limes

mass tourism and the national automobile manufacturing industry from 1954 to 1964 and offers valuable insight to postmodern Spain's transformation and trends

Examines the relationship of Derrida's writings on architecture to his methodology of deconstruction and to deconstrutivism in architecture

This volume explores how these practices of ethnic categorisation formed part of Roman strategies of control

despite these daily pressures

sexual trauma

This book considers the less well-known writings of diverse others

and include cover and catch crops

He suggests that the sacred itself begins as an imaginative construct and becomes a convention