Tzanelli, R (2013) Olympic Ceremonialism and the Performance of National Character: From London 2012 to Rio 2016. Pivot Sports Series . Palgrave ISBN 9781137336316
Abstract
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? The present 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 reflect 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 tornadóros. A creative worker and a tourist, the tornadóros manipulates audio-visual narratives of culture and identity for global Olympic audiences.
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Item Type: | Book |
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Keywords: | art theory; mega events; national and cosmopolitan identities; travel/tourism theory; globalisation theory (global flows); film theory |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Aug 2013 10:14 |
Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2013 10:14 |
Published Version: | http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=67... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave |
Series Name: | Pivot Sports Series |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:76145 |