Why We Watch
Subtitle: The Attractions of Violent Entertainment
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 28, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780195118209
First sentence: If we define violence as the unsanctioned or illegitimate use of harmful or destructive physical force, which I take to be a reasonable definition, then sports confront us with a paradox: boxing matches and a number of other sports events involve a great deal of interpersonally harmful but nonetheless sanctioned physical force.