King Football
Subtitle: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: October 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780807826508
Subjects: American football; American history: from c 1900 -; Media studies; Social history; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; c 1945 to c 1960; Popular Culture - General; Football; Sociology Of Sports; Sports & Recreation; Sports; USA; Football - General; Journalism; American Studies; Sports/Sports History; Cultural Studies; Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism; 20th century; History; Mass media and sports
First sentence: On a typical fall weekend in 1939, newspapers, magazines, the radio airwaves, even movie theaters were full of football.