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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779458503321

Titolo

Sport, media, culture : global and local dimensions / / editors, Alina Bernstein, Neil Blain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-34491-8

0-203-04583-1

1-283-88595-6

1-136-34484-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Sport in the global society, , 1368-9789

Altri autori (Persone)

BernsteinAlina

BlainNeil <1951->

Disciplina

070.4/49796

Soggetti

Mass media and sports

Sports - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sport and the media : the emergence of a major research field / Alina Bernstein and Neil Blain -- The Olympic Games : twenty-first century challenges as a global media event / Nancy K. Rivenburgh -- What's in a name? : Muhammad Ali and the politics of cultural identity / Amir Saeed -- From pig's bladders to Ferraris : media discourses of masculinity and morality in obituaries of Stanley Matthews / Garry Whannel -- New media sport / Raymond Boyle and Richard Haynes -- Meeting the industry : an interview with Alex Gilady and Alina Bernstein -- Attribution of failure : Hans-Joerg Stiehler and a German soccer story / Mirko Marr -- "Witches of our age" : women ultras, Italian football, and the media / Rinella Cere -- "We got next" : images of women in television commercials during the inaugural WNBA season / Stanley T. Wearden and Pamela J. Creedon -- Fitba crazy? : Saturday Super Scoreboard and the dialectics of political debate / Hugh O'Donnell -- Beyond "media culture" : sport as dispersed symbolic activity / Neil Blain.

Sommario/riassunto

An examination of the central features of the sport-media phenomenon, focusing on Europe and the USA. The book analyses such



issues as new media technology; gender, ethnicity and local dimensions of collective identity; women in American basketball advertising; and cult football radio in Scotland.