Sport--commerce--culture
Subtitle: essays on sport in late capitalist America
By: David L. Andrews.
Series: Popular culture and everyday life,; v. 11; Popular culture & everyday life ;; v. 11.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Sports -- United States -- Marketing.; Sports -- Economic aspects -- United States.; Sports -- Social aspects -- United States.
Description: This collection of eight critical sociological essays by David L. Andrews on sport and culture is heavily influenced by the work of C. Wright Mills, which insisted on the need to anchor any examination of social existence within the historical moment and conditions that frame it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : situating sport; title: The wonderful world of the NBA; title: A cog in the global media machine; title: That's sportainment!; title: Gendered Olympic virtuality; title: Celebrating race; title: Suburban soccer fields; title: Rot beneath the sporting glitter; title: Going global, imaging the local; title: Conclusion : the end of sport history.