How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum

• Author(s): Robert Kerr,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 143
• ISBN_10: 1137534079
  ISBN_13: 9781137534071
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Sports & Recreation / Cultural & Social Aspects , Social Science / Sociology of Religion , Sports & Recreation / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / General , Social Science / Media Studies , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... 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.