Olympic ceremonialism and the performance of national character [electronic resource] : from London 2012 to Rio 2016 / Rodanthi Tzanelli.
In recent decades ceremonies stood in Olympiads as both vehicles of cultural values and shows embracing the banal and the everyday. But how much do we understand them as forms of public art? This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover event to Rio for the 2016...
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| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Olympic Industry: Slow and Fast Mobilities
- 2. The Opening Ceremony: Structural Nostalgia and Pop Pastiche
- 3. The Concluding Show: Music and the Self-Creating Cycle
- 4. Struggling With the Other: Embodied Styles as Tourist Articulation.