Understanding sports culture / Tony Schirato.
Material type: TextSeries: Understanding contemporary culturePublisher: Los Angeles ; London : Sage Publications, 2007Description: 150 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1412907381
- 9781412907385
- 141290739X
- 9781412907392
- 306.483 22
- GV706.5 .S344 2007
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306.483 SAN Sport ethnography / | 306.483 SCA Sport and society : history, power and culture / | 306.483 SCA Sport and society : history, power and culture / | 306.483 SCH Understanding sports culture / | 306.483 SCH Understanding sports culture / | 306.483 SCH Bridging the divide : the role of sport events in contributing to social development between disparate communities / | 306.483 SEM Sexuality, sport and the culture of risk / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-145) and index.
1. Introduction: Playing Sport -- 2. Theories of Play, Games and Sport -- 3. Intimations of Sport -- 4. The Field of Sport -- 5. Global Sport -- 6. Sport, the Media and Spectatorship -- 7. From Sport to Spectacle -- 8. Contemporary Sport.
"Understanding Sport Culture traces and analyzes the development of the modern field of sport from its ancient and medieval precursors (the festivals of Greece and Rome, and games such as folk football), through to its inception in the mid-nineteenth century as a set of activities designed to instill character and discipline in students in exclusive British public schools, up to its transformation into a global institution and popular spectacle. The narrative also focuses on and provides a detailed account of the gradual coming together of sport and the media. It explains how this relationship has accentuated sport's status as one of the most important sites in contemporary culture, while simultaneously threatening its existence. ; As part of the Understanding Contemporary Culture series this book is aimed at a broad range of students from undergraduate to graduate level, who want to know more and be fully informed on sport, its relationship to the media, and its cultural dynamics."--Publisher description.
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