Sport, Media, Culture - Global and Local Dimensions

Zusatztext 'there is much in this collection of essays that will appeal to those whose interest in sport goes beyond the tabloid fix of football transfers and racing tips' - The Times Informationen zum Autor ALINA BERNSTEIN, Neil Blain Klappentext An examination of the central features of the sport-media phenomenon, focusing on Europe and the USA. The book analyses such issues as new media technology; gender, ethnicity and local dimensions of collective identity; women in American basketball advertising; and cult football radio in Scotland. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the sport-media phenomenon and analyses such issues as new media technology, gender, ethnicity, collective identity and globalization, as well as aspects of the political economy of the media. Inhaltsverzeichnis Sport and the media - the emergence of a major research field, Alina Bernstein and Neil Blain; the Olympic Games - 21st-century challenges as a global media event, Nancy K. Rivenburgh; what's in a name? Muhammad Ali and the politics of cultural identity, Amir Saeed; from pig's bladders to Ferraris - media discourses of masculinity and morality in obituaries of Stanley Matthews, Garry Whannel; new media sport, Raymond Boyle and Richard Haynes; meeting the industry - an interview with Alex Gilady, Alina Bernstein; attribution of failure - a German soccer story, Hans-Joerg Stiehler and Mirko Marr; witches of our age - women ultras, Italian football and the media, Rinella Cere; we got next - images of women in television commercials during the inaugural WNBA season, Stanley T. Wearden and Pamela J. Creedon; fitba crazy? Saturday super scoreboard and the dialectics of political debate, Hugh O'Donnell; beyond media culture - sport as dispersed symbolic activity, Neil Blain.

Product details

• Authors: ALINA BERNSTEIN, Alina (Tel Aviv University Bernstein, Alina Blain Bernstein, Neil Blain, Neil Bernstein Blain
• Assisted by: ALINA BERNSTEIN (Editor), Neil Blain (Editor), Blain Neil (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.06.2002
• EAN: 9780714682617
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-8261-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Sport in the Global Society; Sport in the Global Society
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, Popular Culture, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, Humanities, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sports and Active outdoor recreation