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How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum
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53,49 € |
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Pivot |
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| Veröffentl.: | 05.02.2016 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781137534071 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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Beschreibungen
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 <br>2. America Meets Football, and Football Meets Frank Merriwell<br>3. Time Runs Out on the Wholesome Warrior <br>4. Center Stage for Billy Clyde <br>5. Scenes from the Conundrum in Motion <br>6. A Postmodernist Theory of Football <br>7. Life in the Hyper-Mediated Marketplace of Football Narratives<br>8. A Merriwellean Billy Clyde from a Postmodern Beer a Minute<br>9. Two-Tiered Gender System Encounters Emotion Work<br>10. Conclusion - Football, Postmodernism, and Us <br><br>
<p>Robert Kerr is Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor at Gaylord College, University of Oklahoma, USA.</p>
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