How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism

The Billy Clyde Conundrum

Robert Kerr (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

143 Seiten

2014 | 2015 ed.
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
978-1-349-56296-1 (ISBN)

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American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.

1. Introduction - Why This Game, Why This Story 2. America Meets Football, and Football Meets Frank Merriwell3. Time Runs Out on the Wholesome Warrior 4. Center Stage for Billy Clyde 5. Scenes from the Conundrum in Motion 6. A Postmodernist Theory of Football 7. Life in the Hyper-Mediated Marketplace of Football Narratives8. A Merriwellean Billy Clyde from a Postmodern Beer a Minute9. Two-Tiered Gender System Encounters Emotion Work10. Conclusion - Football, Postmodernism, and Us

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte	Emotion • Football • Gender • media • Postmodernism • Sociology
ISBN-10	1-349-56296-3 / 1349562963
ISBN-13	978-1-349-56296-1 / 9781349562961
Zustand	Neuware