Sport and postmodern times
edited by Geneviève Rail.
Bok Engelsk 1998
| Medvirkende | Rail, Geneviève, (editor)
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xxi, 399 pages )
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| Opplysninger | Postmodernism and the possibilities for writing "vital" sports texts / Toni Bruce -- "How do you warm-up for a stretch class?": sub/in/di/verting hegemonic shoves toward sport / Nate Kohn and Synthia Sydnor -- Born-again sport: ethics in biographical research / Robert Rinehart -- Representing black masculinity and urban possibilities: racism, realism, and Hoop dreams / Cheryl L. Cole and Samantha King -- Lesbians and locker rooms: the subjective experiences of lesbians in sport / Caroline Fusco -- Colonizing the feminine: Nike's intersections of postfeminism and hyperconsumption / Mélisse R. Lafrance -- Seismography of the postmodern condition: three theses on the implosion of sport / Geneviève Rail -- Sex, lies, and videotape: the political and cultural economies of celebrity fitness videos / Margaret MacNeill -- Excavating Michael Jordan: notes on a critical pedagogy of sporting representation / David Andrews -- Baudrillard, "Amérique," and the hyperreal World Cup / Steve Redhead -- Instrumental rationalization of human movement: an archeological approach / Jacques Gleyse -- Addiction, exercise, and cyborgs: technologies of deviant bodies / Cheryl L. Cole -- Post-sport: transgressing boundaries in physical culture / Brian Pronger -- In search of the sports bar: masculinity, alcohol, sports, and the mediation of public space / Lawrence A. Wenner -- Rap and dialectical relations: culture, subculture, power, and counter-power / Nancy Midol -- Hassiba Boulmerka and Islamic green: international sports, cultural differences, and their postmodern interpretation / William J. Morgan -- (Ir)relevant ring: the symbolic consumption of the Olympic logo in postmodern media culture / Rob VanWynsberghe and Ian Ritchie.. - Using postmodern social theory, this book expands our understanding of sport, the body, and the broader physical culture.This book provides critical insight into the questions of race, gender, sexuality, and locality in sport and society. Topics discussed include postmodern sport writing; sport and the postmodern deconstruction of gender and sexuality; virtual sport and the postmodern mediascape; discipline, normalization, rationalization, surveillance, panopticism, and other forms of power used to “invest” postmodern sporting bodies; and new perspectives on sport and physical culture, consumer culture, and postmodern geography.
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| ISBN | 0-585-06084-3. - 1-4384-1674-1
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