{"product_id":"olympic-opening-ceremonies","title":"Olympic Opening Ceremonies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book to unpack the history and significance of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the frontispiece of the most watched event on Earth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering the period from the Moscow Olympics in 1980 to Tokyo 2020, the book examines when, how and why the Olympic opening ceremonies’ artistic programme became the multi-act spectacles seen today. It argues that the embedded nationalistic, ethnic and environmental discourses contained in opening ceremonies have much to tell us about national narratives, memory and myth-making, about the history of representation, and about how the Olympics and the spectacle of mega-events are prisms through which local and global socio-political issues are refracted, from the climate crisis and the struggle for minority rights to the emergence of a multi-polar world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology, culture, history or politics of sport and events, geopolitics or performance studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54260452491608,"sku":"9781032901244","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032901244.jpg?v=1768049136","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/olympic-opening-ceremonies","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}