Steven Wieting (ed.)

Sport and Memory in North America

Herausgeber: Wieting, Steven

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cultures and nations remember themselves with select bodily images, evocative rituals and texts. This volume illustrates how sport is used in the creation, maintenance and now global dissemination of a nation's cherished values. Carefully drawn cases of sport in North America - American baseball and football, figure skating and gymnastics, Canadian hockey and track and field, for example - show the potency of sport's "cultural work." The book captures uplifting images which are stressed in the public performance and national and international broadcasting of sport, but also notes the omissions and distortions of social reality that persist in sport performance and mass marketing in North America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780714682051
• ISBN-10: 0714682055
• Artikelnr.: 21831173

Autorenporträt

Stephen Wieting

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Stephen G. Wieting and Judy Polumbaum. Part 1 The social image in memory and representation: cultural identity
law and baseball
Sarah K. Fields; pride and prejudice - reflecting on sport heroes
national identity and crisis in Canada
Steven J. Jackson and Pam Ponic; remembering the black and gold - African Americans
sport memory and the University of Iowa
David R. McMahon. Part 2 The body in memory and representation: tobacco
health and the sports metaphor
Michelle McQuistan and Christopher Squier; drugs and numbers in the reporting of American sports
Michael A. Katovich; curling in Canada
Stephen G. Wieting and Danny Lamoureux. Part 3 The nation in celebration in global broadcasting: America's national pastime and Canadian nationalism
Sean Hayes; forcing the fairytale - narrative strategies in figure skating competition coverage
Bettina Fabos; the whole world isn't watching (but we thought they were) - the Super Bowl and United States solipsism
Christopher R. Martin and Jimmie L. Reeves; epilogue - the future of exchange between local culture and global trends
Stephen G. Wietling and Judy Polumbaum.