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King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press
Michael Oriard
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Description for King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press
Paperback. In this landmark work exploring the vibrant world of football from the 1920s through the 1950s, the author explores how the mass media shaped and were shaped by the exploding popularity of football. King Football is at once a cultural history of football and a provocative study of the power of print and broadcast media. Num Pages: 512 pages, 50 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFD; WSJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 694.
In this landmark work exploring the vibrant world of football from the 1920s through the 1950s, Michael Oriard explores how the mass media shaped and were shaped by the exploding popularity of football. King Football is at once a sweeping cultural history of football, a provocative study of the power of print and broadcast media, and a compelling investigation of American attitudes about race, class, and gender and their relationship to sport.
In this landmark work exploring the vibrant world of football from the 1920s through the 1950s, Michael Oriard explores how the mass media shaped and were shaped by the exploding popularity of football. King Football is at once a sweeping cultural history of football, a provocative study of the power of print and broadcast media, and a compelling investigation of American attitudes about race, class, and gender and their relationship to sport.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807855454
SKU
V9780807855454
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-3
About Michael Oriard
A former football player for Notre Dame and the Kansas City Chiefs, Michael Oriard is Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at Oregon State University. He is author of four previous books on American sport and sports literature, including Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle, which focuses on the sport from the late nineteenth to ... Read more
Reviews for King Football: Sport and Spectacle in the Golden Age of Radio and Newsreels, Movies and Magazines, the Weekly and the Daily Press
"[Oriard] captures the self-aggrandizing illogic of the game's cultural role in his absorbing study of early 20th-century culture." - New York Times; "Oriard's detailed and well-written work shows us how the game has been constructed through notions of national, gendered and ethnic - and, as he insists, also class - identities." - Journal of American Studies"