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The Olympic Games in Motion: Books
A selection of titles on the Olympics and sports in film and television. These items are available to view at the Library.
The Sport
- BARNETT, Steven
- Games and sets: the changing face of sport on television.
- London: BFI, 1990.
- 214p. illus. bibliog. index.
- ISBN 0851702686
- BARNEY, Robert K. and WENN, Stephen R. and MARTYN, Scott G
- Selling the five rings: the International Olympic Committee and the rise of Olympic commercialism.
- Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 2002.
- xvi, 384p. [12]plates. notes. graph. index.
- ISBN 0874807131
- BERGAN, Ronald
- Sports in the movies.
- [s.l.]: Proteus, 1982.
- 160p. illus. filmogs. index.
- ISBN 0862760178
- p98-111 Olympic Sports: Olympia!
- BERNSTEIN, Alina and BLAIN, Neil (eds.)
- Sport, media, culture: global and local dimensions.
- Frank Cass, 2003. 263p. tables. index.
- (Sport in the Global Society).
- ISBN 0714682616
- pp.31-50 The Olympic Games: Twenty-First Century Challenges as a Global Media Event.
- BOYLE, Raymond and HAYNES, Richard
- Power play: sport, the media & popular culture.
- Harlow: Longman, 2000.
- vi-xii, 244p. bibliog. index.
- ISBN 0582369398
- pp. 55-7 The Olympics and the 'Hamburger Games' of 1984. pp.225-235 bibliography.
- BROOKES, Rod
- Representing sport.
- London; New York: Arnold; Oxford University Press, 2002.
- x, 172p. refs. index.
- ISBN 0340740523
- pp.64-73 Chapter Three, The Global Politics of FIFA and the IOC.
- GEARING, Brian and McNEILL, Phil.
- Seventy years of BBC Sport.
- London: Andre Deutsch, 1999.
- 179p. illus.
- ISBN 0233995552
- HALLORAN, James D. and GRAY, Peggy
- The importance of the media coverage of sport.
- i, 83, i-xviii, [20]p. tables. appendices.
- Pilot research project looking at the relationship between media coverage of sport (and in particular the Olympic Games) and young people.
- KLATELL, David A. and MARCUS, Norman
- Sports for sale: television, money and the fans.
- New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
- 253p. bibliog.
- ISBN 0195038363
- pp.161-186 Chapter 8, Going for the Gold: Olympic Television.
- LARSON, James F. and PARK, Heung-Soo
- Global television and the politics of the Seoul Olympics.
- Boulder; San Francisco; Oxford: Westview, 1993.
- 281p. graphs. appendix. index.
- (Politics in Asia and the Pacific)
- ISBN 0813316944
- MANDELL, Richard D.
- The Nazi Olympics.
- Souvenir Press, 1972.
- 316p. [16]plates. index.
- O'NEIL, Terry
- The game behind the game: high pressure, high stakes in television sports.
- New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
- 291p. plates. index.
- ISBN 0060160195
- pp.8-41 Chapter One, Munich. (1972 Munich Olympics)
- POWERS, Ron
- Supertube: the rise of television sports.
- New York: Coward-McCann, 1984.
- 288p. bibliog. index.
- ISBN 0698112539
- PUIJK, Roel
- Global spotlights on Lillehammer: how the world viewed Norway during the 1994 Winter Olympics.
- Luton: John Libbey Media/University of Luton Press, 1997.
- iv-x, 285p. tables. figs. bibliogs. appendix.
- ISBN 1860205208
- SPÀ, Miquel de Moragas and RIVENBURGH, Nancy K. and LARSON, James F. (et al.)
- Television in the Olympics.
- London: John Libbey, 1995.
- (Acamedia Research Monograph, 13)
- 276p. tables. appendices. bibliog.
- ISBN 0861965388
- SUGAR, Bert Randolph
- The thrill of victory: the inside story of ABC sport.
- New York: Hawthorn, 1978.
- 342p. illus. chronolog. Index.
- ISBN 0801577179
- pp.207-265 Chapter Seven, The Five-Ring Olympic Circus.
- ZUCKER, Harvey Marc and BABICH, Lawrence J. Sports films: a complete reference.
- Jefferson, NC; London: McFarland, 1987.
- 612p. illus. bibliog. indices.
- ISBN 089950227X
Films and TV programmes
Chariots of Fire (1981)
- HILL, John
- British cinema in the 1980s: issues and themes.
- Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
- ix-xiv, 261p. illus. bibliog. index.
- ISBN 0198742568
Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
- HANKE, Ken
- Charlie Chan at the movies: history, filmography and criticism.
- Jefferson, NC; London: McFarland, 1989.
- 270p. illus. filmog. index.
- ISBN 0899504272
- BERLIN, Howard M.
- The Charlie Chan film encyclopedia.
- Jefferson, NC; London: McFarland, 2000.
- vii, 375p. illus. index.
- ISBN 0786407093
International Velvet (1978)
- FORBES, Bryan
- International Velvet.
- London: Heinemann, 1978.
- 160p.
- ISBN 434268305
- A novel.
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
- AITKEN, Stuart C. and ZONN, Leo E. (eds.)
- Place, power, situation and spectacle: a geography of film.
- Lanham, MD; London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1994.
- 245p. illus. bibliogs. indices.
- ISBN0847678253
- pp.69-100 Chapter 4: Jerusalem, Dover Beach, and Kings Cross: Imagined Places as Metaphors of the British Class Struggle in Chariots of Fire and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, by Martyn J. Bowden.
Olympia (1938)
(Part I: Olympische Spiele Fest der Schönheit)
(Part II: Olympische Spiele Fest der Völker)
- RIEFENSTAHL, Leni
- Olympia. [Rev. ed.]
- London: Quartet Books, 1994.
- 288p. illus.
- ISBN 0704370824
- DOWNING, Taylor
- Olympia.
- London: BFI, 1992.
- 96p. illus. credits. bibliog.
- (bfi Film Classics)
- ISBN 0851703410
- GRAHAM, Cooper C.
- Leni Riefenstahl and Olympia.
- Metuchen, NJ; London: Scarecrow Press, 1986.
- 323p. illus. plates. bibliog. index.
- (Film-makers series, no. 13)
- ISBN 0810818965
- WIESBADEN, GESCHAFTSFUHRER DER FILMBEWERTUNGSSTELLE
- Olympia: der Film von XI Olympischen Spielen Berlin 1936 von Leni Riefenstahl.
- Wiesbaden: Geschaftsfuher der Filmbewertungsstelle, [1958?].
- unpaged. plates.
Personal Best (1982)
- HOLLINGER, Karen
- In the company of women: contemporary female friendship films
- Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
- vii-viii, 275p. illus. index.
- ISBN 0816631786
- pp.140-148 Personal Best: a lesbian film or a sports film?
The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968)
- KNEALE, Nigel
- The year of the sex olympics, and other TV plays.
- London: Ferret Fantasy, 1976.
- pp.93-143
Olympians in film and TV
Herman Brix (Bruce Bennett)
- ESSOE, Gabe
- Tarzan of the movies: a pictorial history of more than fifty years of Edgar Rice Burrough's legendary hero.
- New York: Citadel Press, 1968.
- 208p. illus.
- pp.87-93
Buster Crabbe
- KINNARD, Roy
- Fifty years of serial thrills.
- Metuchen, NJ; London: Scarecrow Press, 1983.
- 210p. filmogs. indices.
- SHAY, Don
- Conversations, vol.1.
- Albuquerque, N.M: Kaleidoscope, 1969.
- [215]p. photos. filmogs.
- (Chapter 1, pp.3-32 on Buster Crabbe)
- WILLIAMS, Hank
- Those wide open spaces.
- Sanford, Florida: Hole in the Wall Press, 2000.
- xxxi, 408p. illus.
- ISBN 1929902034
Sonja Henie
- HENIE, Sonja
- Wings on my feet.
- New York: Prentice Hall, 1940.
- 177p. plates.
- PARISH, James Robert
- The Fox girls.
- New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1971.
- 722p. illus. filmogs.
- STRAIT, Raymond
- Queen of ice, queen of shadows: the unsuspected life of Sonja Henie
- New York: Stein and Day, 1985.
- 339p. plates. filmog. index.
- ISBN 0812829786
Johnny Weissmuller
- FURY, David
- Johnny Weissmuller: twice the hero.
- Minneapolis, Minnesota: Artist's Press, 2000.
- xxii, 360p. illus. [104]plates. filmog. bibliog. index.
- ISBN 0924556021
- FURY, David
- Kings of the jungle: an illustrated reference to 'Tarzan' on screen and television.
- Jefferson, NC; London: McFarland, 1994.
- 256p. illus. appendices. index.
- ISBN 0899507719
- NOCHIMSON, Martha
- Screen couple chemistry: the power of 2.
- Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002.
- xii, 394p. illus. bibliog. index.
- ISBN 0292755791
- WEISSMULLER Jr., Johnny
- Tarzan my father.
- Toronto: ECW Press, 2002.
- 229p. illus. [16]plates. appendix. index.
- ISBN 1550225227
