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How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism

How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism

Robert Kerr

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2015
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Cultura popular
ISBN:
9781137555885

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American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.

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