Research Catalog

Title

How postmodernism explains football and football explains postmodernism : the Billy Clyde conundrum / Robert Kerr.

Author

Kerr, Robert

Publication

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Details

Description

150 pages; 23 cm

Summary

American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.

Subject

• Football > Social aspects > United States
• Mass media and sports
• Postmodernism
• Social sciences
• Culture > Study and teaching
• Sociology
• Cultural studies
• Communication
• Mass media
• Football > Philosophy
• Football > Social aspects
• Postmodernism > Social aspects > United States
• American football
• Media studies: TV & society
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
• Popular culture
• Social groups
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
• TV & society

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction - Why This Game, Why This Story -- 2. America Meets Football, and Football Meets Frank Merriwell -- 3. Time Runs Out on the Wholesome Warrior -- 4. Center Stage for Billy Clyde -- 5. Scenes from the Conundrum in Motion -- 6. A Postmodernist Theory of Football -- 7. Life in the Hyper-Mediated Marketplace of Football Narratives -- 8. A Merriwellean Billy Clyde from a Postmodern Beer a Minute -- 9. Two-Tiered Gender System Encounters Emotion Work -- 10. Conclusion - Football, Postmodernism, and Us.

ISBN

• 9781137555885 (hbk.)
• 1137555882 (hbk.)
• 9781137534088 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781137534071 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

921827552

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library