{"product_id":"sport-and-identity-in-france-practices-locations-representations-9783039118984","title":"Sport and Identity in France: Practices,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«Dine (...) has produced a significant contribution to understanding the central role sports have played in negotiating French identities over the last century and a half.» (Corry Cropper, H-France Review 154, 2012\/12)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Horse racing as elite tradition and mass entertainment – The French invention - and manipulation - of the Olympic Games – Cycle road racing as industrial metaphor and heritage industry – Roland(-)Garros from the pioneering aviator to the Open tennis championship – Ocean racing from Alain Gerbault to Florence Arthaud – Looking for liberty - and finding France - in the desert, the mountains and the post-colonial city – Combat sports from the fencing academy to the streets of the \u003ci\u003ebanlieue\u003c\/i\u003e – Rugby from provincial nostalgia to pragmatic cosmopolitanism – Football and the competing claims of locality, ethnicity and fidelity.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043744710999,"sku":"9783039118984","price":44.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783039118984.jpg?v=1750959310","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sport-and-identity-in-france-practices-locations-representations-9783039118984","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}