The cultural politics of post-9/11 American sport power, pedagogy and the popular
by
Silk, Michael L.
Title
:
The cultural politics of post-9/11 American sport power, pedagogy and the popular
Author
:
Silk, Michael L.
ISBN
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9780203154366
Edition
:
1st ed.
Publication Information
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New York : Routledge, 2012.
Physical Description
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viii, 183 p.
Series
:
Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 10
Series Title
:
Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 10
Abstract
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"Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of "official" Government rhetoric about 9/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the citizenry to come to terms with 9/11, in providing official understandings and interpretations of the event, and setting the terms for a geo-political-military response (the war on terror). However, strikingly absent from post-9/11 writing has been discussion on the role of sport in this moment. This text provides the first, book-length account, of the ways in which the sport media, in conjunction with a number of interested parties sporting, state, corporate, philanthropic, military operated with a seeming collective affinity to conjure up nation, to define nation and its citizenry, and, to demonize others. Through analysis of a variety of cultural products film, childrens baseball, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, reality television the book reveals how, in the post-9/11 moment, the sporting popular operated as a powerful and highly visible pedagogic weapon in the armory of the Bush Administration; operating to define ways of being American and thus occlude other ways of being"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Term
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Sports -- Political aspects -- United States.
Nationalism and sports -- United States.
Sports -- Social aspects -- United States.
Mass media and sports -- United States.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | [[missing key: search.ChildField.HOLDING]] | Status |
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Online Library | E-Book | 260880-1001 | ONLINE | | Elektronik Kütüphane |