Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues: The Transformation of Soccer Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415115285 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 176 str.

Steve Redhead

Opis

Soccer fandom has traditionally been seen as an important part of adolescent, generally male, identity-making. This text looks at the way youth culture is being reshaped by media culture in its various aspects at the end of the millennium. It looks at post-fandom, the style conscious shifting allegiences heavily influenced by advertising and popular music. The text examines the globalization and mediatization of sports culture through such events as the World Cup staged in America in 1994 and at the complicated relations between football and the law reflected in the public obsession with so-called soccer hooliganism at a time when the phenomena concerned seemed to be dying away. Anyone interested in the increasingly complex interrelations between an acceleration, hyperreal popular culture and a sport which has symbolized more traditional social ties should find this book of interest and relevance.

Recenzje

'Popcult professor switches his attention from rave culture to soccer culture with pleasing and productive results.' - ID Magazine

'an original and ... perceptive look at the game ... Redhead curls his educated left foot around the transformation of soccer culture.' - Hugh MacDonald, The Herald

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Post-Youth; Chapter 2 Post(Realist)-Realism; Chapter 3 Post-Fandom and Hyperlegality; Chapter 4 Hyperreality Bytes; Chapter 5 (Channel) Surfin’ USA; Chapter 6 The Sound of the Stadium; Chapter 7 These Charming Fans; Chapter 8 Post-Culture;

O autorze

Steve Redhead is Professor of Law and Popular Culture at the School of Law, The Manchester Metropolitan University.