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Barbaric sport : a global plague
- Title
- Barbaric sport : a global plague / Marc Perelman ; translated by John Howe.
- Author
- Perelman, Marc
- Publication
- London ; New York : Verso, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- x, 134 p.; 20 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Sport barbare. English
- Alternative Title
- Sport barbare.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-134).
- Language (note)
- Translated from French.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-5873
- ISBN
- 9781844678594
- 1844678598
- 9781844679133
- 1844679136
- LCCN
- 2012003763
- OCLC
- 767564373
- Author
- Perelman, Marc.
- Title
- Barbaric sport : a global plague / Marc Perelman ; translated by John Howe.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : Verso, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-134).
- Language
- Translated from French.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-5873