03112nam 2200661Ia 450 991077740960332120230927215016.0979-88-908736-1-30-8078-6403-X(CKB)1000000000452663(EBL)413382(OCoLC)70740476(SSID)ssj0000187524(PQKBManifestationID)11184359(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000187524(PQKBWorkID)10136907(PQKB)11397303(SSID)ssj0000777479(PQKBManifestationID)12362444(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777479(PQKBWorkID)10757563(PQKB)23566799(Au-PeEL)EBL413382(CaPaEBR)ebr10075640(CaONFJC)MIL929685(OCoLC)559314716(MiAaPQ)EBC413382(EXLCZ)99100000000045266320010608d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierKing Football sport and spectacle in the golden age of radio and newsreels, movies and magazines, the weekly & the daily press /Michael OriardChapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,2001.1 online resource (xiv, 491 pages) illustrations0-8078-5545-6 0-8078-2650-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-470) and index.Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; The Reign of ''King Football''; Football, the Media, and American Culture; Part I. In the Kingdom of Football; 1. Reading, Watching, & Listening to Football; 2. Local Football; 3. Who Cares about Reform?; 4. Players' or Coaches' Whose Game Is It?; 5. Gridiron, U.S.A.; 6. Sanctioning Savagery; Part II. What We Think About When We Think about Football; 7. Class?; 8. Ethnicity; 9. Race; 10. Masculinity; Epilogue: Into the Age of Television; Appendix A: Football Films, 1920–1960Appendix B: Football Covers on the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's, 1920–1960 Appendix C: Football Fiction in the Saturday Evening Post and Collier's, 1920–1960; Notes; Notes; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index;This work explores the vibrant world of football from the 1920's through the 1950's, a period in which the game became deeply embedded in American life. It reconstructs a media-created world of football and looks at its deep entanglements with a modernizing American society.FootballHistory20th centuryFootballSocial aspectsUnited StatesMass media and sportsHistory20th centuryFootballHistoryFootballSocial aspectsMass media and sportsHistory796.332/09/041Oriard Michael1948-1465219MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777409603321King Football3675116UNINA