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Book Synopsis Wrestling and Hypermasculinity by : Patrice A. Oppliger
Download or read book Wrestling and Hypermasculinity written by Patrice A. Oppliger and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional wrestling revels in its exaggeration of masculinity. This hyper-masculinity is evident in the physical appearance of wrestlers, the sexuality-charged and violent moves used in and out of the ring, the role assigned to women and the extensive use of weapons such as chains, barbed wire and steel folding chairs. This study explores the link between watching televised wrestling matches and increases in verbal aggression, rebellion and propensity toward violence and retaliation. Wrestling is placed within the larger context of popular culture and other hyper-masculine entertainment. The book begins with a brief history of professional wrestling, a summary of the criticisms of the sport, and a discussion of the author's research methods. One chapter discusses how gender socialization plays a part in the effects of wrestling on its viewers, arguing that wrestling goes beyond the image of physically violent acts to models of interpersonal behavior. The expansion of wrestling into storylines outside the ring includes problem situations involving class, race, homophobia and nationality, to which violence is often presented as a solution. The book concludes with an investigation of the attractiveness of wrestling and its ability to lure fans back year after year.
Download or read book SportCult written by Randy Martin and published by Cultural Politics. This book was released on 1999 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at such diverse examples of sport culture as aerobics, bodybuilding, Mexican pro-wrestling, golf-course design, the basketball documentary Hoop Dreams, women sportscasters, sports-related trademarks, martial arts in Tanzanian youth culture, and cricket in Sri Lanka and post-apartheid South Africa, SportCult deftly explores sport as a cultural frame of reference for such critical issues as national identity, the idea of the body, global capitalism, and the politics of representation.
Book Synopsis Critical Rhetorics of Race by : Michael G. Lacy
Download or read book Critical Rhetorics of Race written by Michael G. Lacy and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection scholars seek to examine the complicated and contradictory terrain of the rhetorics of race while moving the field of communication in a more intellectually productive direction.
Book Synopsis Playing to Win by : Robert Alan Brookey
Download or read book Playing to Win written by Robert Alan Brookey and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this era of big media franchises, sports branding has crossed platforms, so that the sport, its television broadcast, and its replication in an electronic game are packaged and promoted as part of the same fan experience. Editors Robert Alan Brookey and Thomas P. Oates trace this development back to the unexpected success of Atari's Pong in the 1970s, which provoked a flood of sport simulation games that have had an impact on every sector of the electronic game market. From golf to football, basketball to step aerobics, electronic sports games are as familiar in the American household as the televised sporting events they simulate. This book explores the points of convergence at which gaming and sports culture merge.
Download or read book Flash Art written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Culture in the Communication Age by : James Lull
Download or read book Culture in the Communication Age written by James Lull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to live in the Communication Age? What has happened to culture in the Communication Age? What is the nature of culture today? Culture in the Communication Age brings together some of the world's leading thinkers from a range of academic disciplines to discuss what 'culture' means in the modern era. They describe key features of cultural life in the 'communication age', and consider the cultural implications of the rise of global communication, mass media, information technology, and popular culture. Individual chapters consider: * Cultures of the mind * Rethinking culture in a global context * Re-thinking Culture, from 'ways of life' to 'lifestyle' * Gender and Culture * Popular Culture and Media Spectacles * Visual Culture * Star Culture * Computers, the Internet and Virtual Cultures * Superculture in the Communication Age
Download or read book TDR. written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Willing's Press Guide and Advertisers' Directory and Handbook by :
Download or read book Willing's Press Guide and Advertisers' Directory and Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Qualitative Methods in Sports Studies by : David L. Andrews
Download or read book Qualitative Methods in Sports Studies written by David L. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a timely contribution to a broader methodological project as the first systematic examination and explication of qualitative research methods within sports studies. Qualitative Methods in Sports Studies assesses a variety of approaches, ranging from social historical, media text, and personal narrative to ethnographic and interview-based qualitative research methodologies. Drawing on the diversity of sport studies literature, contributors outline the major issues and strategies associated with each method. This practical research guide is an essential reference tool for students and scholars of sport and leisure studies.
Book Synopsis Body Power/Power Play by : Andrea Jahn
Download or read book Body Power/Power Play written by Andrea Jahn and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport, as a media event and leisure ritual, is increasingly becoming a center of commercial and personal interest, with an ever greater role in society, politics, and the economy. Thus was this investigation into the role of sport in the arts instigated, focusing on the cult of the star, mass hysteria, the portrayal of sporting heroes in the media, self-chastisement, obsession with beauty, and fashion trends in the fitness industry.
Book Synopsis Sportscasters/Sportscasting by : Linda Fuller
Download or read book Sportscasters/Sportscasting written by Linda Fuller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-25 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to the workings of the business, Sportscasters/Sportscasting: Principles and Practices explains all of the information essential to anyone looking to begin a career in sports media, and includes numerous appendices containing acronyms and biographic information about over 200 sportscasters, and a complete Instructor’s Manual.
Book Synopsis Sport, Culture & Media by : Rowe, David
Download or read book Sport, Culture & Media written by Rowe, David and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the ways in which media sport has insinuated itself into contemporary everyday life, this book traces the rise of the sports media and the economic and political influences on and implications of the media sports cultural complex.
Book Synopsis Why She Plays by : Christine A. Baker
Download or read book Why She Plays written by Christine A. Baker and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of women in basketball.
Book Synopsis Tattoos in American Visual Culture by : M. Fenske
Download or read book Tattoos in American Visual Culture written by M. Fenske and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In analyses of tattoo contests, advertising, and modern primitive photographs, the book shows how images of tattooed bodies communicate and disrupt notions of gender, class, and exoticism through their discursive performances. Fenske suggests working within dominant discourse to represent and subvert oppressive gender and class evaluations.
Book Synopsis The Commercialisation of Sport by : Trevor Slack
Download or read book The Commercialisation of Sport written by Trevor Slack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does commercialisation mean for the future of sport? Modern sports links to commerce are highly visible. Stadiums and arenas bear the names of businesses, while sponsors' logos appear on athletes' clothing and equipment, on the facilities in which they play, and in the titles of the events in which they compete. Media companies pay vast sums for the rights to broadcast sports events, and advertisers pay a premium to promote products during the screening of these events. Cities invest, at the expense of other social projects, in the staging of major sports events and to attract professional teams to their areas. Star athletes are transferred for multi-million fees and professional sport franchises are sold for sums higher than the gross domestic products of some countries. Even recreational athletes are subject to a constant barrage of commercial pressures to improve their game. Sport's links to commerce have intensified over the past 30 years but have been subjected to little academic analysis. This book represents an attempt to fill that significant gap in the literature by examining five different aspects of the commercialisation of sport: · The sports industry · The public sector · The commercialisation of 'amateur' sport · Sport and television · Sports sponsorship There has been a rapid and widespread commercialisation of sport and it is vital that we now raise critical questions and analyse the changes that have taken place.
Book Synopsis Privilege at Play by : Hugo Cerón-Anaya
Download or read book Privilege at Play written by Hugo Cerón-Anaya and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most research on inequality focuses on impoverished communities, it often ignores how powerful communities and elites monopolize resources at the top of the social hierarchy. In Privilege at Play, Hugo Ceron-Anaya offers an intersectional analysis of Mexican elites to examine the ways affluent groups perpetuate dynamics of domination and subordination. Using ethnographic research conducted inside three exclusive golf clubs and in-depth interviews with upper-middle and upper-class golfers, as well as working-class employees, Ceron-Anaya focuses on the class, racial, and gender dynamics that underpin privilege in contemporary Mexico. His detailed analysis of social life and the organization of physical space further considers how the legacy of imperialism continues to determine practices of exclusion and how social hierarchies are subtlety reproduced through distinctions such as fashion and humor, in addition to the traditional indicators of wealth and class. Adding another dimension to the complex nature of social exclusion, Privilege at Play shows how elite social relations and spaces allow for the resource hoarding and monopolization that helps create and maintain poverty.
Book Synopsis Understanding Media Semiotics by : Marcel Danesi
Download or read book Understanding Media Semiotics written by Marcel Danesi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This new edition brings Understanding Media Semiotics fully up to date and is written for students of the media, of linguistics and those interested in studying the ever-changing media in more detail. Offering an in-depth guide to help students investigate and understand the media using semiotic theory, this book assumes little previous knowledge of semiotics or linguistics, avoiding jargon and explaining the issues step by step. With in-depth case studies, practical accounts and directed further reading, Understanding Media Semiotics provides students with all the tools they need to understand semiotic analysis in the context of the media. Semiotic analysis is sometimes seen as complicated and difficult to understand; Marcel Danesi shows that on the contrary it can be readily understood and can greatly enrich students' understanding of media texts, from print media right through to the internet and apps.
