Sport and Identity in France : Practices, Locations, Representations.
Title:
Sport and Identity in France : Practices, Locations, Representations.
Author:
Dine, Philip.
ISBN:
9783035302271
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (390 pages)
Series:
Cultural Identity Studies ; v.14
Cultural Identity Studies
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements vii -- Introduction: Exploring French sporting identities 1 -- Part 1 Practices 11 -- Chapter 1 From Gladiateur to Ourasi: France's equine sporting champions 13 -- Chapter 2 The Olympic Games: The French invention - and manipulation - of an international sporting showcase 45 -- Chapter 3 From the Great Loop to the Hell of the North: Cycle road racing, work and suf fering 81 -- Part 2 Locations 115 -- Chapter 4 Tennis from le jeu de paume to Roland(-)Garros 117 -- Chapter 5 Marianne rules the waves: Ocean racing from Alain Gerbault to Florence Arthaud 149 -- Chapter 6 Looking for liberty - and finding France - in the desert, the mountains and the city 177 -- Part 3 Representations 215 -- Chapter 7 Combat sports: Masculinity, ethnicity and memory 217 -- Chapter 8 French rugby: From provincial nostalgia to pragmatic cosmopolitanism 253 -- Chapter 9 Competing identities in French football: Locality, ethnicity, fidelity 287 -- Conclusion: Baron Pierre de Coubertin's contested legacy 327 -- Bibliography 333 -- Index 367.
Abstract:
How does sport shape society? This book seeks to answer this question by examining the meaning of sport in French society and the construction of local, national and, increasingly, global identities through sport. It begins by reassessing modern sport's emergence and consolidation in France in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and then traces developments from the Second World War to the present, reflecting on the current status and future role of French sport. Horse racing, cycling, tennis, adventure sports, rugby and football, as well as the role of the Olympic Games, are discussed. The author investigates the interaction of these mass and elite physical practices with a wide variety of sporting locations - spatial and temporal, concrete and imagined - and in a rich field of representations, including literature and the fine arts, the press, cinema, radio, television and digital media. Related concepts of sporting celebrity, stardom and heroism also inform the discussion, offering new contributions to this developing critical area.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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