Women's Sport and Spectacle - Gendered Television Coverage and the Olympic Games

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Feminist Sports Studies and Genre Criticism
The Transformation of Women's Olympic Sport into Olympic Spectacle
"Chilly Scenes" of the 1992 Winter Games
Sports and Soaps: Gendered Coverage of the 1992 Summer Games
Soap on Ice: The Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan Story and the 1994 Winter Games
Mediated Melodramas and Network Nationalism: The 1996 Summer Games
Bibliography
Index

About the author

GINA DADDARIO is Associate Professor of Mass Communication at Shenandoah University. She has published numerous articles on women, media, and sport which have appeared in Women's Studies in Communication and Sociology of Sport Journal.

Product details

• Authors: Gina Daddario, Daddario Gina
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.1998
• EAN: 9780275958565
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95856-5
• No. of pages: 184
• Weight: 369 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Sporting events and management, Sporting events & management, SPORTS & RECREATION / Women in Sports, Popular Culture: Media, Television, and Radio