Sport, Media, Culture - Global and Local Dimensions

List of contents

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.

About the author

ALINA BERNSTEIN, Neil Blain

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: ALINA BERNSTEIN (Editor), Neil Blain (Editor), Blain Neil (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2002
• EAN: 9780714652993
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-5299-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 660 g
• Series: Sport in the Global Society
• Subjects: Guides > Sport; History, Popular Culture, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, Humanities, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sports and Active outdoor recreation