King Football : sport and spectacle in the golden age of radio and newsreels, movies and magazines, the weekly & the daily press / / Michael Oriard

• Autore: Oriard Michael <1948->
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 491 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 796.332/09/041
• Soggetto topico: Football - History - 20th century; Football - Social aspects - United States; Mass media and sports - History - 20th century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-470) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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, 1920–1960 ; Appendix 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: King Football
• ISBN: 979-88-908736-1-3; 0-8078-6403-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777409603321
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