Sport, media, culture : global and local dimensions /

Sport, media, culture : global and local dimensions / editors, Alina Bernstein, Neil Blain. - viii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sport and the Media: The Emergence of a Major Research Field / The Olympic Games: Twenty-First Century Challenges as a Global Media Event / What's in a Name? Muhammad Ali and the Politics of Cultural Identity / From Pig's Bladders to Ferraris: Media Discourses of Masculinity and Morality in Obituaries of Stanley Matthews / New Media Sport / Meeting the Industry: An Interview with Alex Gilady / Attribution of Failure: A German Soccer Story / 'Witches of Our Age': Women Ultras, Italian Football and the Media / 'We Got Next': Images of Women in Television Commercials during the Inaugural WNBA Season / Fitba Crazy? Saturday Super Scoreboard and the Dialectics of Political Debate / Beyond 'Media Culture': Sport as Dispersed Symbolic Activity / Alina Bernstein and Neil Blain -- Nancy K. Rivenburgh -- Amir Saeed -- Garry Whannel -- Raymond Boyle and Richard Haynes -- Alina Bernstein -- Hans-Joerg Stiehler and Mirko Marr -- Rinella Cere -- Stanley T. Wearden and Pamela J. Creedon -- Hugh O'Donnell -- Neil Blain.

0714652997 9780714652993 0714682616 9780714682617

2002151346


Mass media and sports--Cross-cultural studies
Sports--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies

GV742 / .S663 2003

070.449796

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