1st Edition

Documenting the Beijing Olympics

Edited By D.P. Martinez, Kevin Latham Copyright 2011
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

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’... Read more

Documenting the Beijing Olympics:An Introduction  D. P. Martinez, Dept. of Anthropology, SOAS

The Cultural Legacy of Olympic Posters  John Hughson, International Football Institute, University of Central Lancashire

The ‘caged torch procession’: celebrities, protesters and the 2008 Olympic torch relay in London, Paris and San Francisco  John Horne, University of Central Lancashire and Garray Whannel, University of Bedfordshire

‘Betwixt and Between’: Reflections on the Ritual Aspects of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics  Jialing Luo, Dept. of Anthropology, Cambridge

Media representation of volunteers at the Beijing Olympic Games  Charles Bladen, University of Greenwich Business School

China’s media viewed through the prism of the Beijing Olympics  Kevin Latham, Dept. of Anthropology, SOAS

The Communication Gesture of the Beijing Olympic Games  Chen Weixing, International Communication Studies Center, Communication University of China

Framing China and the world through the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, 1984-2008  Limin Liang, Northwestern University

A study of Guangdong TV’s Olympics coverage strategy  Huang Yaohua, Guangdong Television, China

Personal, Popular and Information Portals Olympic news and the Use of Mobile Phones among Migrant Workers in Fuzhou  LIU Jun, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Fuzhou University and Fujian Normal University

Olympiad, A Place of Linguistic Struggle – The Discursive Constitution of ‘Human Rights’ in the 2008 Beijing Olympics  Hwang Yihjye, Modern East Asia Research Centre, Leiden University

Public Diplomacy Games: A Comparative Study of American and Japanese Responses to the Interplay of Nationalism, Ideology and Chinese Soft Power Strategies around the 2008 Beijing Olympics  Christopher J. Finlay, The Annenberg School for Communication, The University of Pennsylvania, and Xin Xin, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of the University of Westminster

Human Rights and the Olympic Movement after Beijing  Bruce Kidd, Faculty of Physical Education and Health, University of Toronto

The Tricolour in Beijing: Indian Sport, Olympism and Nationalism  Boria Majumdar, Senior Research Fellow, University of Central Lancashire

Biography

D. P. Martinez is Reader in Anthropology with special reference to Japan at the department of Anthropology, SOAS.

Kevin Latham is a senior lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His recent research has focused on Chinese media with particular attention to journalism, new media, the Beijing Olympics, consumption and consumerism.