How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-55588-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 143 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2961 g

American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kerr, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport: Politik, Ökonomie, Ökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sportsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten American Football Fußball
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport: Psychologie, Soziologie, Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction  - Why This Game, Why This Story
2. America Meets Football, and Football Meets Frank Merriwell
3. Time Runs Out on the Wholesome Warrior
4. Center Stage for Billy Clyde
5. Scenes from the Conundrum in Motion
6. A Postmodernist Theory of Football
7. Life in the Hyper-Mediated Marketplace of Football Narratives
8. A Merriwellean Billy Clyde from a Postmodern Beer a Minute
9. Two-Tiered Gender System Encounters Emotion Work
10. Conclusion - Football, Postmodernism, and Us

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Kerr is Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor at Gaylord College, University of Oklahoma, USA.