The cultural politics of post-9/11 American sport
Subtitle: power, pedagogy and the popular
By: Michael Silk
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Routledge research in sport, culture and society -- 10
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780415873413
Subjects: Mass media and sports; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Nationalism and sports; SPORTS & RECREATION / General; Influence; SPORTS & RECREATION / Sociology of Sports; Sports
Description: "Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of "official" Government rhetoric about 9/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the citizenry to come to terms with 9/11, in providing official understandings and interpretations of the event, and setting the terms for a geo-political-military response (the war on terror). However, strikingly absent from post-9/11 writing has been discussion on the role of sport in this moment. This text provides the first, book-length account, of the ways in which the sport media, in conjunction with a number of interested parties  sporting, state, corporate, philanthropic, military operated with a seeming collective affinity to conjure up nation, to define nation and its citizenry, and, to demonize others. Through analysis of a variety of cultural products film, childrens baseball, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, reality television the book reveals how, in the post-9/11 moment, the sporting popular operated as a powerful and highly visible pedagogic weapon in the armory of the Bush Administration; operating to define ways of being American and thus occlude other ways of being"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.