| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Sport and the media : the emergence of a major research field / Alina Bernstein and Neil Blain -- The Olympic Games : twenty-first century challenges as a global media event / Nancy K. Rivenburgh -- What's in a name? : Muhammad Ali and the politics of cultural identity / Amir Saeed -- From pig's bladders to Ferraris : media discourses of masculinity and morality in obituaries of Stanley Matthews / Garry Whannel -- New media sport / Raymond Boyle and Richard Haynes -- Meeting the industry : an interview with Alex Gilady and Alina Bernstein -- Attribution of failure : Hans-Joerg Stiehler and a German soccer story / Mirko Marr -- "Witches of our age" : women ultras, Italian football, and the media / Rinella Cere -- "We got next" : images of women in television commercials during the inaugural WNBA season / Stanley T. Wearden and Pamela J. Creedon -- Fitba crazy? : Saturday Super Scoreboard and the dialectics of political debate / Hugh O'Donnell -- Beyond "media culture" : sport as dispersed symbolic activity / Neil Blain. |
| Summary |
An examination of the central features of the sport-media phenomenon, focusing on Europe and the USA. The book analyses such issues as new media technology, gender, women in American basketball advertising, and cult football radio in Scotland. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mass media and sports -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Mass media and sports. |
| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Subject |
Sports -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Sports -- Social aspects. |
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Sports. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bernstein, Alina.
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Blain, Neil, 1951-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sport, media, culture. London ; Portland, Or. : F. Cass, 2003 0714652997 (DLC) 2002151346 (OCoLC)49833341 |
| ISBN |
9781136344848 (electronic book) |
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1136344845 (electronic book) |
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0714652997 |
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9780714652993 |
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0714682616 |
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9780714682617 |
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