Kelsey Blair

Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analyzing sport through the lens of performance and theorizing performance through the lens of sport, this book is an investigation of the intersection between sport performances and public life in the historical present in the global north.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 140
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781032231280
• ISBN-10: 1032231289
• Artikelnr.: 65893179

Autorenporträt

Kelsey Blair is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Concordia University in Montreal. She is a theatre, performance, and cultural studies scholar, a university teacher, an author, and a freelance writer.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Sport and the Field of Performance
Chapter 1: Performance Genres, Sport, and Match-fixing at the 2012 Olympic
Games
Chapter 2: Configurations and Formations: The Patterning of Behaviour in
Performance Activities and the Practice of Women's Basketball
Chapter 3: The Patterning of Audience Behaviours and Hockey in Canada
Chapter 4: Sequences of Action Across Genres: Injury Mini-Dramas and
American Football
Chapter 5: Gestural Marks in Sport Performance, The Genealogy of the
Butterfly, and the Refugee Olympic Team
Appendix 1
Index