ISBN:
0748635920
,
0748635939
,
9780748635924
,
9780748635931
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 254 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Power Play : Sport, the Media and Popular Culture
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
Mass media and sports
;
Sports Social aspects
;
Sports and state
;
Mass media Social aspects
Abstract:
Praise for the first edition:'An excellent book that tries to come to grips with the ever-increasing role of sport in the media as a particular phenomenon of 20th-century popular culture.'European Journal of Communication (2000)'Excellent, well written and informative… of interest and use to a wider constituency.'Times Higher Education Supplement (May 2000)Since its first publication in 2000 Power Play has become a key text in the burgeoning study of media sport. Charting the development of the relationship between sport and the media, the book examines the way in which the media has increasin
Description / Table of Contents:
Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Sport, the Media and Popular Culture; Chapter 2 All Our Yesterdays: A History of Media Sport; Chapter 3 A Sporting Triangle: Television, Sport and Sponsorship; Chapter 4 Power Game: Why Sport Matters to Television; Chapter 5 Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Media Sport and Stardom; Chapter 6The Race Game: Media Sport, Race and Ethnicity; Chapter 7 Playing the Game: Media Sport and Gender; Chapter 8 Games Across Frontiers: Mediated Sport and National Identity; Chapter 9 The Sports Pages: Journalism and Sport
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 10 Consuming Sport: Fans, Fandom and the AudienceChapter 11 Conclusion: Sport in the Digital Age; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-239) and index
,
Previous ed.: Harlow: Longman, 2000
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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