Players all
Players all: performances in contemporary sport Robert E. Rinehart
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1998.
ISBN: 0253334268
DDC: 796
LCC: GV706.5
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-179) and index.
Sport as performance: setting the stage -- Dropping hierarchies:
toward the study of a contemporary sporting avant-garde -- Sport as
kitsch: a case study of The American gladiators -- Sport as
avant-garde: a case study of the World Wrestling Foundation -- Sport
as epiphanic marker: a case study of Super Bowl XXVI -- Sport as
postmodern construction: a case study of paintball -- Sport as
constructed audience: a case study of ESPN's The eXtreme games --
Sport as postmodern tourism: warp speed in Barcelona (olympism,
ideology, and experience).
Language: eng
Physical Description: xvi, 188 p. ; 25 cm.
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