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Title Sport, media, culture : global and local dimensions / editors, Alina Bernstein, Neil Blain
Published London ; Portland, Or. : F. Cass, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : illustrations
Series Sport in the global society, 1368-9789
Sport in the global society. 1368-9789
Contents Sport and the media : the emergence of a major research field / Alina Bernstein and Neil Blain -- The Olympic Games : twenty-first century challenges as a global media event / Nancy K. Rivenburgh -- What's in a name? : Muhammad Ali and the politics of cultural identity / Amir Saeed -- From pig's bladders to Ferraris : media discourses of masculinity and morality in obituaries of Stanley Matthews / Garry Whannel -- New media sport / Raymond Boyle and Richard Haynes -- Meeting the industry : an interview with Alex Gilady and Alina Bernstein -- Attribution of failure : Hans-Joerg Stiehler and a German soccer story / Mirko Marr -- "Witches of our age" : women ultras, Italian football, and the media / Rinella Cere -- "We got next" : images of women in television commercials during the inaugural WNBA season / Stanley T. Wearden and Pamela J. Creedon -- Fitba crazy? : Saturday Super Scoreboard and the dialectics of political debate / Hugh O'Donnell -- Beyond "media culture" : sport as dispersed symbolic activity / Neil Blain
Summary An examination of the central features of the sport-media phenomenon, focusing on Europe and the USA. The book analyses such issues as new media technology, gender, women in American basketball advertising, and cult football radio in Scotland
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mass media and sports -- Cross-cultural studies
Sports -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
Mass media and sports
Sports -- Social aspects
Massenmedien
Sportberichterstattung
Aufsatzsammlung
Sport
Medienwissenschaft
Politische Ökonomie
Massamedia.
Sport.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Bernstein, Alina
Blain, Neil, 1951-
LC no. 2002151346
ISBN 9781136344848
1136344845
9780203045831
0203045831
9781136344985
1136344985
9781136344916
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