Sport, Culture and the Media
Subtitle: The Unruly Trinity (Issues in Cultural and Media Studies)
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: June 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780335202034
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Media Studies; Sport & leisure industries; Mass Communication Media And Society; Sociology Of Sports; Social Science; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Sociology; General; Popular Culture - General; Sociology - General; Anthropological aspects; Mass media and sports; Social aspects; Sports
First sentence: Such prescriptions of what ought to be called a sport are often contested but at both official and unofficial levels dispute is not so much over whether a game contest has to be physical in order to count as sport, as over the physical status of the activity that claims to be a sport.