Sport, media and society
By: Eileen Kennedy and Laura Hills
Contributors: Hills, Laura
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781847884688
Subjects: Social aspects; Mass media and sports; Sports; SPORTS & RECREATION; Sociology of Sports
Description: A guide to analysing sport in its diverse mediated forms. It features the techniques of analysis for film, TV, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, spaces such as stadia and museums, and the internet. It explores the ambiguous and shifting cultural politics of sport through case studies, drawn from across the UK and USA.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (189-201) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Interacting with Media Sport; 1 Analysing Media Sport; 2 Sport on Film; 3 Televised Sport; 4 Sport and the Press; 5 Sport and Magazines; 6 Sport in Advertising; 7 Sport, Media and Visual Culture; 8 New Media Sportscapes: Branding and the Internet; 9 Making Connections: Wimbledon, Media and Society; References; Index.