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A Game of Two Halves: Football Fandom, Television and Globalisation

Cornel Sandvoss
4.9/5 (33271 ratings)
Description:Professional football is one of the most popular television 'genres' worldwide, attracting the support of millions of fans, and the sponsorship of powerful companies. In A Game of Two Halves, Sandvoss considers football's relationship with television, its links with transnational capitalism, and the importance of football fandom in forming social and cultural identities around the globe. He presents the phenomenon of football as a reflection postmodern culture and globalization.Through a series of case studies, based in ethnographic audience research, Sandvoss explores the motivations and pleasures of football fans, the intense bond formed between supporters and their clubs, the implications of football consumption on political discourse and citizenship, football as a factor of cultural globalisation, and the pivotal role of football and television in a postmodern cultural order.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Game of Two Halves: Football Fandom, Television and Globalisation. To get started finding A Game of Two Halves: Football Fandom, Television and Globalisation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
224
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Routledge
Release
2004
ISBN
1134378319

A Game of Two Halves: Football Fandom, Television and Globalisation

Cornel Sandvoss
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Description: Professional football is one of the most popular television 'genres' worldwide, attracting the support of millions of fans, and the sponsorship of powerful companies. In A Game of Two Halves, Sandvoss considers football's relationship with television, its links with transnational capitalism, and the importance of football fandom in forming social and cultural identities around the globe. He presents the phenomenon of football as a reflection postmodern culture and globalization.Through a series of case studies, based in ethnographic audience research, Sandvoss explores the motivations and pleasures of football fans, the intense bond formed between supporters and their clubs, the implications of football consumption on political discourse and citizenship, football as a factor of cultural globalisation, and the pivotal role of football and television in a postmodern cultural order.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Game of Two Halves: Football Fandom, Television and Globalisation. To get started finding A Game of Two Halves: Football Fandom, Television and Globalisation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
224
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Routledge
Release
2004
ISBN
1134378319

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