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Barbaric sport : a global plague / Marc Perelman ; translated by John Howe.
- Title
- Barbaric sport : a global plague / Marc Perelman ; translated by John Howe.
- Author
- Perelman, Marc
- Publication
- London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | GV706.35 .P47513 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Howe, John
- Uniform Title
- Sport barbare English
- Alternative Title
- Sport barbare
- Subject
- Note
- First published in 2011 [i.e., 2008] by Editions Michalon, Paris as Le sport barbare, critique d'un fléau mondial.--verso t.p.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-134).
- Language (note)
- Translated from French.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781844678594
- 9781844679133
- LCCN
- ^^2012003763
- OCLC
- 767564373
- SCSB-12228316
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library