Sporting Realities

Author : Samantha N. Sheppard
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496222474
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sporting Realities written by Samantha N. Sheppard and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the increasing number of popular and celebrated sports documentaries in contemporary culture, such as ESPN’s 30 for 30 series, there has been little scholarly engagement with this genre. Sports documentaries, like all films, do not merely showcase objective reality but rather construct specific versions of sporting culture that serve distinct economic, industrial, institutional, historical, and sociopolitical ends ripe for criticism, contextualization, and exploration. Sporting Realities brings together a diverse group of scholars to probe the sports documentary’s cultural meanings, aesthetic practices, industrial and commercial dimensions, and political contours across historical, social, medium-specific, and geographic contexts. It considers and critiques the sports documentary’s visible and powerful position in contemporary culture and forges novel connections between the study of nonfiction media and sport.

Author : Leonard Koppett
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252064159
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sports Illusion, Sports Reality written by Leonard Koppett and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If this isn't the best analysis of the professional sports business ever written, I'd like to see the book that beats it. . . . Should be read by every sports fan or -- for that matter -- social critic." --From a five-star review, West Coast Review of Books. "Explores its subject so thoroughly and demolishes so many commonly held assumptions that after reading it even the most knowledgeable fans (and some journalists) should feel like drunks who have suddenly been forced to sober up." -- Chicago Tribune "Required reading for anyone who calls himself a fan." -- Chicago Sun-Times "An invaluable contribution to sports literature." -- Howard Cosell

Author : Peter J. Beck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040103464
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Football as Cultural Diplomacy written by Peter J. Beck and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on wide-ranging archival research, this authoritative new history examines the cultural diplomatic role played by British football in international affairs, British foreign policy, and international football during the 1930s. For British governments, soccer diplomacy emerged as a favoured instrument of soft power when facing Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Hirohito’s Japan, and Stalin’s Russia on and off the field. Examining the evolving relationship between successive governments and the Football Association, this book records how governments, though publicly espousing the distinctive autonomy of British sport, pursued privately a progressively interventionist role regarding international matches played by England and Football League clubs. Embedding its central themes in the wider context of international relations, the war of ideas between the liberal democracies and the dictatorships, and international football, the book also interrogates one of the most shocking moments in British sporting history, when England players gave Nazi salutes in Berlin in 1938, an episode in which virtue signalling was used in support of footballing appeasement. Offering readers an informed historical perspective on some of the modern world’s most significant issues, from the divide between dictatorships and liberal democracies to the use of sport as cultural diplomacy aka cultural propaganda, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the history of Britain, sport history, football, international politics, diplomacy or international institutions.

Author : David Welky
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252032993
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything Was Better in America written by David Welky and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American mass culture's conservative response to the Great Depression and the coming of World War II

Author : Lincoln Allison
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0714649694
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amateurism in Sport written by Lincoln Allison and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes amateurism seriously as ethical and political theory and examines its rationale, its history, its ethics and economics and the future of amateur values.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anrd Krüger
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091647
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nazi Olympics written by Anrd Krüger and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1936 Olympic Games played a key role in the development of both Hitler’s Third Reich and international sporting competition. The Nazi Olympics gathers essays by modern scholars from prominent participating countries and lays out the issues--sporting as well as political--surrounding the involvement of individual nations. The volume opens with an analysis of Germany’s preparations for the Games and the attempts by the Nazi regime to allay the international concerns about Hitler’s racist ideals and expansionist ambitions. Essays follow on the United States, Great Britain, and France--top-tier Olympian nations with misgivings about participation--as well as Germany's future Axis partners Italy and Japan. Other contributions examine the issues involved for Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Throughout, the authors reveal the high political stakes surrounding the Games and how the Nazi Olympics distilled critical geopolitical issues of the time into a spectacle of sport.

Author : Tim Delaney
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476644098
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Sports written by Tim Delaney and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition takes a fresh approach to the study of sport, presenting key concepts such as socialization, race, ethnicity, gender, economics, religion, politics, deviance, violence, school sports and sportsmanship. While providing a critical examination of athletics, this text also highlights many of sports' positive features. This new edition includes significantly updated statistics, data and information along with updated popular culture references and real-world examples. Newly explored is the impact of several major world events that have left lasting effects on the sports realm, including a global pandemic (SARS-CoV-2, or Covid-19) and social movements like Black Lives Matter and Me Too. Another new topic is the "pay for play" movement, wherein college athletes demanded greater compensation and, at the very least, the right to profit from their own names, images and likenesses.

Author : Sherril W. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radio Programming in Action, Realities and Opportunities written by Sherril W. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: