How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum [electronic resource] /
Kerr, Robert.author.
American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover ""; ""Half-Title ""; ""Title ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Contents ""; ""1 Introduction?Why This Game, Why This Story""; ""2 America Meets Football, and Football Meets Frank Merriwell""; ""3 Time Runs Out on the Wholesome Warrior""; ""4 Center Stage for Billy Clyde""; ""5 Scenes from the Conundrum in Motion""
""6 A Postmodernist Theory of Football""; ""7 Life in the Hyper-Mediated Marketplace of Football Narratives""; ""8 A Merriwellean Billy Clyde from a Postmodern Beer a Minute""; ""9 Two-Tiered Gender System Encounters Emotion Work""; ""10 Conclusion?Football, Postmodernism, and Us""
""References""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.
Sports—Sociological aspects.
Culture.
Sports.
Cultural studies.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Communication.
Sociology.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
Sociology of Culture.
Popular Science in Sports.
Cultural Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Media Research.