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Power Play: Sport, the Media and Popular Culture
Raymond Boyle
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Description for Power Play: Sport, the Media and Popular Culture
Hardback. A new study of the link between three key obsessions of the 20th century: the media, sport and popular culture. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; WS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 533.
Praise for the first edition: 'An excellent book that tries to come to grips with the ever-increasing role of sport in the media as a particular phenomenon of 20th-century popular culture.' European Journal of Communication (2000) 'Excellent, well written and informative! of interest and use to a wider constituency.' Times Higher Education Supplement (May 2000) The fully revised and updated version of this classic text examines the link between three key obsessions of the 21st century: the media, sport and popular culture. Gathering new material from around the 2007 Rugby World Cup, the Beijing Olympics and the rise of new ... Read more
Praise for the first edition: 'An excellent book that tries to come to grips with the ever-increasing role of sport in the media as a particular phenomenon of 20th-century popular culture.' European Journal of Communication (2000) 'Excellent, well written and informative! of interest and use to a wider constituency.' Times Higher Education Supplement (May 2000) The fully revised and updated version of this classic text examines the link between three key obsessions of the 21st century: the media, sport and popular culture. Gathering new material from around the 2007 Rugby World Cup, the Beijing Olympics and the rise of new ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748635924
SKU
V9780748635924
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99-10
About Raymond Boyle
Raymond Boyle is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Culture Policy Research at the University of Glasgow. He is author of Sports Journalism: Context and Issues (2006) and co-author with Richard Haynes of Football in the New Media Age (2004) and with Neil Blain and Hugh O'Donnell of Sport and National Identity in the European Media (1993). ... Read more
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