TY - JOUR
T1 - Opening a storyline in the 2020 olympics
AU - Leheny, David
N1 - Funding Information:
This research in this paper was supported by a grant (ERIA-DP-2019-08) from the Economic and Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. My related ERIA Discussion Paper (#294), ᰀThe Contents of Power: Narrative and Soft Power in the Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies, ? (http://www.eria.org/uploads/media/ERIA_DP_n Bially-Mattern, Janice (2005). ᰀWhy Soft Power Isn ᤀt So Soft: Representational Force and the Sociolinguistic Construction of Attraction in World Politics. Millennium: Journal of International Studies 33(3): 583 ጀ612.
Funding Information:
This research in this paper was supported by a grant (ERIA-DP-2019-08) from the Economic and Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. My related ERIA Discussion Paper (#294), “The Contents of Power: Narrative and Soft Power in the Olympic Games Openi ng Ceremonies, ” (http://www.eria.org/uploads/media/ERIA_DP_n o.294.pdf) can be found at the ERIA website.
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The Opening Ceremony under the guidance of popular film director Yamazaki Takashi will almost certainly earn it applause overseas, particularly by viewers and writers eager to take stock of a country’s creative talents in this once-every-four-years fantasia. As the stuff of international politics goes, it will be mostly inconsequential and harmless, and it will likely be good fun. But it also offers the chance to expl ore how a ceremony can reproduce moral and historical claims that remain largely unexamined, and how closed to challenge and contestation an Opening might be.
AB - The Opening Ceremony under the guidance of popular film director Yamazaki Takashi will almost certainly earn it applause overseas, particularly by viewers and writers eager to take stock of a country’s creative talents in this once-every-four-years fantasia. As the stuff of international politics goes, it will be mostly inconsequential and harmless, and it will likely be good fun. But it also offers the chance to expl ore how a ceremony can reproduce moral and historical claims that remain largely unexamined, and how closed to challenge and contestation an Opening might be.
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SN - 1557-4660
VL - 18
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
JF - Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
IS - 4
M1 - 5344
ER -