Consuming sport : fans, sport, and culture / Garry Crawford.
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: x, 182 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0415288908
- 0415288916 (pbk.)
- 306.4/83 22
- GV715 .C73 2004
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.483 CRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A261593B | ||
| Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 306.483 CRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A262393B |
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| 306.483 BIL Communication and sport : surveying the field / | 306.483 BOY Power play : sport, the media and popular culture / | 306.483 BRA Playing on the periphery : sport, identity, and memory / | 306.483 CRA Consuming sport : fans, sport, and culture / | 306.483 EIC Body cultures : essays on sport, space, and identity / | 306.483 ETH Ethnicity, sport, identity : struggles for status / | 306.483 EXA Examining identity in sports media / |
Includes bibliographical references (p.164-177 ) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptualizing sport fans -- 3. Sport fan communities -- 4. The meaning of the contemporary sport venue -- 5. Consumption, spectacle and performance -- 6. Social control and supporter violence -- 7. Sport fans and everyday life -- 8. Consumer goods -- 9. Mass media and new media technologies -- 10. Conclusion.
"Consuming Sport offers a detailed consideration of how sport is experienced and engaged with in the everyday lives, social networks and consumer patterns of its followers. It examines the processes of becoming a sport fan, and the social and moral career that supporters follow as their involvement develops over a life-course."--BOOK JACKET.
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