East Plays West: Sport and the Cold War
Editat de Stephen Wagg, David Andrewsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 noi 2006
This collection of essays from leading international authorities on sport, culture and ideology brings together an impressive body of work organized around key political themes and outstanding moments in sport, and is at once a political history of sport and an illuminating new perspective on the forces that shaped this unsettled time.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415359269
ISBN-10: 0415359260
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 4 b/w images, 3 halftones and 1 line drawing
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.81 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415359260
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 4 b/w images, 3 halftones and 1 line drawing
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.81 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate and UndergraduateCuprins
Introduction 1. Totalitarian Regimes and Cold War Sport: Steroid ‘Übermenschen’ and ‘Ball Bearing Females’ 2. Verbal Gymnastics: The Soviet Sports Administration and the Decision to Enter the Olympic Games, 1947-1952 3. Cold War Expatriot Sport: Symbolic Resistance - and International Response - in Hungarian Water Polo at the Melbourne Olympics, 1956 4. Cold War Football: British-European Encounters in the 1940s and 50s 5. ‘Oscillating Antagonism’: Soviet-British Athletics Relations, 1945-1960 6. ‘If You Want the Girl Next Door….’ Olympic Sport and the Popular Press in Early Cold War Britain 7. The ‘Muscle Gap’: Physical Education and U.S. Fears of a Depleted Masculinity 1954-63 8. Good Versus Evil? Drugs, Sport and the Cold War 9. The Cold War and the (Re) Articulation of Canadian National Identity: The 1972 Canada-USSR Summit Series 10. ‘One Day When the Yankees….’ Cuban Baseball, the United States and the Cold War 11. Playing the ‘Race Card’: US Foreign Policy and the Integration of Sports 12. ‘Miraculous’ Masculinity Meets Militarization: Narrating the 1980 USSR-US Men’s Olympic Ice Hockey Match and Cold War Politics 13. The Soviet Union and the Olympic Games of 1980 and 1984: Explaining the Boycott to their Own People 14. ‘Sport and Politics Don’t Mix’. China's Relationship with the IOC during the Cold War 15. Sport After the Cold War: Implications for Russia and Eastern Europe 16. Performing America’s Past: Cold War Fantasies in a Perpetual State of War 17. ‘Yankee Go Home’: Sport and Anti-Americanism in South Korea
Notă biografică
Stephen Wagg is Reader in Sport and Society at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.
David L. Andrews is Associate Professor in Sport, Commerce and Culture at the University of Maryland, USA.
David L. Andrews is Associate Professor in Sport, Commerce and Culture at the University of Maryland, USA.
Descriere
This is a collection of essays on the symbolic role of sport in the delicate interplay of the superpowers during the Cold War, showing how sport and politics became inextricably intertwined.