Owning the Olympics narratives of the New China
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Record details
- ISBN: 9780472900497
- ISBN: 9780472024506
- ISBN: 0472900498
- ISBN: 0472024507
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (416 pages)
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electronic resource - Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press : University of Michigan Library, ©2008.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | One world, different dreams: the contest to define the Beijing Olympics / Jacques deLisle -- Olympic values, Beijing's Olympic Games, and the universal market / Alan Tomlinson -- On seizing the Olympic platform / Monroe E. Price -- The public diplomacy of the modern Olympic Games and China's soft power strategy / Nicholas J. Cull -- A very natural choice: the construction of Beijing as an Olympic city during the bid period / Heidi Ostbo Haugen -- Dreams and nightmares: history and U.S. visions of the Beijing games / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom -- The fragility of Asian national identity in the Olympic Games / Sandra Collins -- Journalism and the Beijing olympics: liminality with Chinese characteristics / Briar Smith -- All under Heaven: megaspace in Beijing / Carolyn Marvin -- From Athens to Beijing: the closing ceremony and Olympic television broadcast narratives / Christopher Kennett and Miguel de Moragas -- New technologies, new narratives / Lee Humphreys and Christopher J. Finlay -- Embracing wushu: globalization and cultural diversification of the Olympic movement / Hai Ren -- We are the media: nonaccredited media and citizen journalists at the Olympic Games / Andy Miah, Beatriz García, and Tian Zhihui -- Definition, equivocation, accumulation, and anticipation: American media's ideological reading of China's Olympic Games / Sonja K. Foss and Barbara J. Walkosz -- Toward the future: the new Olympic internationalism / Christopher J. Finlay -- Beyond media events: disenchantment, derailment, disruption / Daniel Dayan. |
Language Note: | English. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Olympic Games (29th : 2008 : Beijing, China) Mass media China Olympics Political aspects China |