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Sport, Media and Society: 0
Author(s): Eileen Kennedy (Author), Laura Hills (Author)
- Publisher: Berg Publishers
- Publication Date: 1 Sept. 2009
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 216 pages
- ISBN-10: 1845206878
- ISBN-13: 9781845206871
Book 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. As such, it will be an essential purchase for all students of media and sports studies students.
Editorial Reviews
Review
[T]he authors have good teaching skills in dealing with abstract concepts and… the book is very clear and consistent in its approach. — Goran Eriksson, Orebro University ― idrottsforum.org
About the Author
Eileen Kennedy is Associate Researcher in the School of Sport and Education at Brunel University.
