How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum

Kerr, Robert

American 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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Published by: Palgrave Pivot

Publication Date: 2015-08-20

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137555885

DOI: 10.1057/9781137534071

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 143