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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.483
EAN: 9780803932449
ISBN: 0803932448
Label: Sage Publications, Inc
Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: August 01, 1989
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Sales Rank: 690862
Studio: Sage Publications, Inc
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Although interest, even obsession with media sports has grown tremendously in the past few years, there is little scholarly inquiry focused on how the media sports culture has developed and how we respond to it. Framed by a seminal article outlining the parameters of the communication of sports and pointing to major issues that need to be addressed in the relationship between sports and media, Media, Sports and Society provides a foundation for research on the communication of sports.
Contributors examine the theoretical, cultural and historical issues, the production of media sports programming, its content and its audience. Individual chapters include a discussion of the spectacle of media sports, a comparison of Super Bowl Football and World Cup Soccer, a consideration of the spectators' enjoyment of sports violence, the rhetoric of winning and the American dream, and a fascinating examination of gender harmony and sports interests. The variety of perspectives and concerns taken into account makes the volume useful to students and researchers in sociology, psychology and cultural studies as well as mass communication.
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