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Olympic ceremonialism and the performance of national character = from London 2012 to Rio 2016 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Olympic ceremonialism and the performance of national character/ Rodanthi Tzanelli.
Reminder of title:	from London 2012 to Rio 2016 /
Author:	Tzanelli, Rodanthi,
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Olympics - Social aspects. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137336323
ISBN:	9781137336323 (electronic bk.)

Olympic ceremonialism and the performance of national character = from London 2012 to Rio 2016 /
Tzanelli, Rodanthi,1974-

Olympic ceremonialism and the performance of national characterfrom London 2012 to Rio 2016 /[electronic resource] :Rodanthi Tzanelli. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource.

1. The Olympic Industry: Slow and Fast Mobilities -- 2. The Opening Ceremony: Structural Nostalgia and Pop Pastiche -- 3. The Concluding Show: Music and the Self-Creating Cycle -- 4. Struggling With the Other: Embodied Styles as Tourist Articulation.

In recent decades ceremonies stood in Olympiads as both vehicles of cultural values and shows embracing the banal and the everyday. But how much do we understand them as forms of public art? This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover event to Rio for the 2016 Olympics as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belonging. It is argued that embodied and projected performances of Britishness and Brazilianness embraced both artistic styles and the contemporary digital turn, refinement and banality. Combinations of art and technology reflected a vision of humanity in motion complying with the Olympic values of fairness, beauty and embodied well-being. The three ceremonial performances supported imaginative travel on stage, on big screens and in musical genres. This travel, at once mediated, embodied and experiential, created an ideal form of 'human': a "tornadaros". A creative worker and a tourist, the "tornadaros" manipulates audio-visual narratives of culture and identity for global Olympic audiences. Spanning Sociology, Sports Studies, Culture and Media Studies, Performance Studies and Tourism Studies, this is a highly interdisciplinary and original perspective on the Olympics.

ISBN: 9781137336323 (electronic bk.)

Source: 673837Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

836515
Olympics
--Social aspects.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: GV721.5 / .T93 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 796.48

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