| Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues: The Transformation of Soccer Culture Contributor(s): Redhead, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415115280 ISBN-13: 9780415115285 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $71.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1997 Annotation: Soccer fandom has traditionally been seen as an important part of adolescent, generally male, identity-making. In this timely and important contribution to the field of popular cultural studies, Steve Redhead looks at the way youth culture is being reshaped by media culture in its various aspects at the end of the millennium. He looks at "post-fandom," the style conscious shifting allegiences heavily influenced by advertising and popular music at the globalization and mediaization of sports culture through such events as the World Cup staged in America in 1994 and at the complicated relations between football and the law reflected in the public obsession with so-called soccer hooliganism at a time when the phenomena concerned seemed to be dying away. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Sports & Recreation | Soccer |
| Dewey: 796.334 |
| LCCN: 97-2916 |
| Lexile Measure: 1570 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6" W x 9" (0.57 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Soccer fandom has traditionally been seen as an important part of adolescent, generally male, identity making. In Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues, Steve Redhead shows how this tradition of youth culture of fandom has been eroded in the last years of the twentieth century by the more fleeting, style conscious allegiances inspired by television, films and music. The clubs that young people follow are determined by advertising and popular music; the games that they watch are brought to them by the globalized culture of television, as in the world cup staged in America; even their fears of so-called soccer hooliganism are determined by media-engendered moral panics at a time when the phenomenon itself seems to be dying away. |