| Sport, Media and Society Contributor(s): Kennedy, Eileen (Author), Hills, Laura (Author) |
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ISBN: 184520686X ISBN-13: 9781845206864 Publisher: Berg Publishers OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: Sports are an integral component of today's media, from prime time television to interactive websites. This book is a theoretical and methodological guide to analyzing sports in their diverse mediated forms. Students of media are taken through techniques of analysis for film, TV, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, spaces such as stadia and museums, and the internet. The ambiguous and shifting cultural politics of sport are explored through original, researched case studies, drawn from across the UK, USA and beyond. The book encourages students to engage critically with their own experience of the media and sports. It also encourages the development of an independent approach to analysis, and as such it will be an essential purchase for all students of media and sports studies students. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Sociology - General - Sports & Recreation | Sociology Of Sports |
| Dewey: 306.483 |
| LCCN: 2009033058 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.00 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sport is an integral component of today's media, from prime time television to interactive websites. This book is a theoretical and methodological guide to analysing sport in its diverse mediated forms. Students of media sport are taken through techniques of analysis for film, TV, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, spaces such as stadia and museums, and the internet. The ambiguous and shifting cultural politics of sport are explored through original, researched case studies, drawn from across the UK, USA and beyond. The book encourages students to engage critically with their own experience of media sport and to develop an independent approach to analysis, and as such it will be an essential purchase for all students of media and sports studies students. |