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Understanding sports culture / Tony Schirato.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Understanding contemporary culturePublisher: Los Angeles ; London : Sage Publications, 2007Description: 150 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1412907381
  • 9781412907385
  • 141290739X
  • 9781412907392
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483 22
LOC classification:
  • GV706.5 .S344 2007
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.483 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A325362B
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.483 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A375464B

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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