European Football and Collective Memory [electronic resource] /
Pyta, W.editor.
Havemann, N.editor.
Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Haverman seek to answer this question through a detailed analysis of how football is remembered across the continent. European Football and Collective Memory is the first book to deal with collective memory of football on a continental scale.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Football Memory in a European Perspective; 2 How are Football Games Remembered? Idioms of Memory in Modern Football; 3 Negotiating the Cold War? Perspectives in Memory Research on UEFA, the Early European Football Competitions and the European Nations Cups; 4 UEFA Football Competitions as European Sites of Memory - Cups of Identity?; 5 The Contribution of Real Madrid's First Five European Cups to the Emergence of a Common Football Space
6 Football and the European Collective Memory in Britain: The Case of the 1960 European Cup Final7 Erecting a European 'Lieu de mémoire'? Media Coverage of the 1966 World Cup and French Discussions about the 'Wembley Goal'; 8 George Best, a European Symbol, a European Hero?; 9 Heysel and its Symbolic Value in Europe's Collective Memory; 10 Football Sites of Memory in the Eastern Bloc 1945-1991; 11 Rituals and Practices of Memorial Culture in Football; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Is it possible for football matches or players to help forge a collective European identity? Pyta and Haverman seek to answer this question through a detailed analysis of how football is remembered across the continent. European Football and Collective Memory is the first book to deal with collective memory of football on a continental scale.
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