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Documenting the Beijing Olympics (Paperback)
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Documenting the Beijing Olympics (Paperback)
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
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This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing
Olympics - ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio
and the written word - and the meanings generated by such
representations. What were the 'key' stories and how were they
chosen? What was dramatised? Who were the heroes? Which 'clashes'
were highlighted and how? What sorts of stories did the notion of
'human interest' generate? Did politics take a backseat or was the
topic highlighted repeatedly? Thus, the focus was not on the
success or failure of this event, but on the ways in which the
Olympics Games, as international and historic events, are
memorialised by observers. The key question that this book
addresses is: How far would the Olympic coverage fall into the
patterns of representation that have come to dominate Olympic
reporting and what would China, as a discursive subject, bring to
these patterns? This book was previously published as a special
issue of Sport in Society.
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