Research Catalog

Title

Examining identity in sports media / editors, Heather L. Hundley, Andrew C. Billings.

Publication

Los Angeles : Sage Publications, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Hundley, Heather L.
• Billings, Andrew C.

Description

viii, 279 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Including the work of top sports communication researchers, Examining Identity in Sports Media explores identity issues, including gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, and (dis)ability, as well as the intersections within these various identity issues. This co-edited, twelve-chapter book investigates how various identity groups are framed, treated, affected, and shaped by a ubiquitous sports media, including television, magazines, film, the Internet, and newspapers. While other books may devote a chapter or section to issues of identity in sports media, this book offers a complete examination of identity from cover to cover, allowing identity variables to be both isolated and intermingled to capture how identity is negotiated within sports media platforms. Far more than a series of case studies, this book surveys the current state of the field while providing insight on future directions for identity scholarship in sports communication."--P. [4] of cover.

Subject

• Gender identity
• Gender identity in mass media
• Communication in sports
• Gender Identity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Examining identity in sports media / Andrew C. Billings and Heather L. Hundley -- The Rene Portland case : new homophobia and heterosexism in women's sports coverage / Marie Hardin and Erin Whiteside -- Exploring the influence of mediated beauty : competitive female athletes' perceptions of ideal beauty in athletes and other women / Kim L. Bissell -- Making masculinity and framing femininity : FIFA, soccer, and World Cup websites / Lindsey J. Meân -- Gendered sports dirt : interrogating sex and the single beer commercial / Lawrence A. Wenner -- Hegemonic masculinity and the rogue warrior : Lance Armstrong as (symbolic) American / Bryan E. Denham and Andrea Duke -- Do you believe in nationalism? : American patriotism in miracle / Michael L. Butterworth -- The whiteness of sport media/scholarship / Mary G. McDonald -- A content analysis of racial representations of NBA athletes on sports illustrated magazine covers : 1970-2003 / Benjamin D. Goss, Andrew L. Tyler, and Andrew C. Billings -- Sporting images of disability : murderball and the rehabilitation of masculine identity / James L. Cherney and Kurt Lindemann -- The effects of outcome of mediated and live sporting events on sports fans' self- and social identities / Jennings Bryant and R. Glenn Cummins -- The institutional(ized) nature of identity in and around sport(s) / Kelby K. Halone.

ISBN

• 9781412954594 (cloth)
• 1412954592 (cloth)
• 9781412954600 (pbk.)
• 1412954606 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008046375

OCLC

275150090

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library