Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of sports and media / edited by Arthur A. Raney, Jennings Bryant.

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Raney, Arthur A.
• Bryant, Jennings.

Description

xvi, 633 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

LEA's communication series

Uniform Title

LEA's communication series.

Subject

Mass media and sports > Handbooks, manuals, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

1. Sports and media in the ancient Mediterranean / Thomas F. Scanlon -- 2. A historical overview of sports and media in the United States / Jennings Bryant and Andrea M. Holt -- 3. Sports and media through the super glass mirror : placing blame, breast-beating, and a gaze to the future / Lawrence A. Wenner -- 4. Sports media : a modern institution / Robert V. Bellamy, Jr. -- 5. Sports content on U.S. television / Dan Brown and Jennings Bryant -- 6. The coverage of sports in print media / Wayne Wanta -- 7. The coverage of sports on radio / John W. Owens -- 8. Broadcast television and the game of packaging sports / David B. Sullivan -- 9. The coverage of sports on cable TV / Chris Wood and Vince Benigni -- 10. Sports online : the newest player in mediasport / Michael Real -- 11. Sports fiction : critical and empirical perspectives / R. Glenn Cummins -- 12. Alternative media versus the Olympic industry / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj -- 13. World Cup worlds : media coverage of the Soccer World Cup 1974 to 2002 / Andrew Tudor -- 14. Gender warriors in sport : women and the media / Margaret Carlisle Duncan -- 15. Utilizing televised sport to benefit prime-time lineups : examining the effectiveness of sports promotion / Andrew C. Billings -- 16. 60 seconds to air : television sports production basics and research review / Marc A. Krein and Sheree Martin -- 17. Sports economics and the media / Michael Mondello -- 18. Sports sponsorship / Lance Kinney -- 19. Why we watch and enjoy mediated sports / Arthur A. Raney -- 20. The causes and consequences of sport team identification / Daniel L. Wann -- 21. Sport, violence, and the media / Barrie Gunter -- 22. Televised NFL games, the family, and domestic violence / Walter Gantz, Samuel D. Bradley and Zheng Wang -- 23. Fantasy sports : history, game types, and research / Richard G. Lomax -- 24. An untapped field : exploring the world of virtual sports gaming / David Leonard -- 25. The new online arena : sport, marketing, and media converge in cyberspace / Joseph E. Mahan III and Stephen R. McDaniel -- 26. Sport and globalization : key issues, phases, and trends / Joseph Maguire -- 27. Sport, the media, and the construction of race / Andrew Grainger, Joshua I. Newman and David L. Andrews -- 28. Crouching tiger, hidden blackness : Tiger Woods and the disappearance of race / Davis W. Houck -- 29. Women, team sports, and the WNBA : playing like a girl / Daniela Baroffio-Bota and Sarah Banet-Weiser -- 30. Thinking through power in sport and sport media scholarship / Mary G. McDonald -- 31. A world of criminals or a media construction? : race, gender, celebrity, and the athlete/criminal discourse / David Leonard -- 32. Sporting bodies / Davis W. Houck -- 33. Sports mascots and the media / C. Richard King, Laurel Davis-Delano, Ellen Staurowsky and Lawrence Baca -- 34. Disability and sport : (non)coverage of an athletic paradox / Marie Hardin.

ISBN

• 0805851887 (casebound : alk. paper)
• 0805851895 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006000395
• 9780805851885

OCLC

• ocm62858067
• SCSB-5247815

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries