Materialities, moving images and the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games

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ID3919115
AuthorsAngela Piccini (0000-0001-6459-2824, Screen, corresponding author), Angela A Piccini
Year2012
Volume44
Issue2
Pages291-305
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2012.669645
OpenAlexW1967356696
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited25

This paper discusses the circulation of archaeological heritage through moving image practices associated with the Olympic Games. From the Athens Games of 1896 to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Olympic 'mega-events' (Roche 2000 Robertson, L. 2007. Taming space: drug use, HIV and homemaking in Downtown Eastside Vancouver. Gender, Place and Culture, 14(5): 527–49. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 2003 Roche, M. 2000. Mega-events and Modernity: Olympics, Expos and the Growth of Global Culture, London: Routledge. [Google Scholar]) continue to produce media narratives of place grounded in archaeological practices. I discuss the performativity of varied and distributed screen practices that extend and modify the archaeological agency of material culture in conditioning the production of place, space and past-ness. While public discourse may have downplayed the role of the city's heritage in the production of the Olympics, I suggest that archaeology is never far away from Olympic narrative frames

Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Art · Downtown · Literature · Media studies · Modernity · Narrative · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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