Titlebook: How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum; Robert L. Kerr Book 2015 Robert L. Ker

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America Meets Football, and Football Meets Frank Merriwell,For us today, trying to think of American football’s beginnings in anything close to their actual historical context is a challenge bordering on the impossible. The game is too much with us. We cannot escape it, especially in its mediated form.

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A Postmodernist Theory of Football,If theorists of postmodernism worked in research-and-development laboratories in a quest to create, let’s say, a textbook microcosm of human social activity that would demonstrate their essential ideas at work—it very well could come out looking something like the mediated game of commercial football.

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A Merriwellean Billy Clyde from a Postmodern Beer a Minute,Moving on through the landscape of hyper-mediated narratives that is commercial football today, we arrive at arguably commercial art’s best effort at telling the story. Further, . presents us with rich opportunities for postmodernist understandings of the game, what we do with it today, and quite possibly what we . do with it.

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Book 2015American 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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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137534071emotion; football; gender; media; postmodernism; sociology; media research

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