Sport's Relationship with Other Leisure Industries: Historical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367109288 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 346 str.

Benjamin Litherland; Dion Georgiou

Opis

This innovative and timely volume of essays critically interrogates the shared histories between sport and a variety of leisure, entertainment and cultural pursuits. Utilizing a range of historical methods and sources, they describe how sport has interacted with a broad range of leisure forms, including tourism, shopping, theatre, circus, carnival and film.

Spis treści

Introduction: Sport’s Relationship with other Leisure Industries: Historical Perspectives 1. ‘For the Recreation of Gentlemen and Other Fit Persons of the Better Sort’: Tennis Courts and Bowling Greens as Early Leisure Venues in Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century London and Bath 2. ‘That Little Sugarloaf Island’: Ailsa Craig, Romance, Reality and the Branding of Scottish Sport and Leisure, 1707–2013 3. Sport and Tourism - An Effective Cooperation: Canoeing and Mountaineering in France before the First World War 4. Cycling Nostalgia: Authenticity, Tourism and Social Critique in Tuscany 5. Professional Bodybuilding and the Business of ‘Extreme’ Bodies: The Mr Olympia Competition in the Context of Las Vegas's Leisure Industries 6. The Rise of ‘The World's Largest Sport and Athletic Outfitter’: A Study of Gamage's of Holborn, 1878–1913 7. ‘Tri-ang Strong Toys’: Lines Brothers and British Motor Sport in the Inter-War Period 8. Redefining the Carnivalesque: The Construction of Ritual, Revelry and Spectacle in British Leisure Practices through the Idea and Model of ‘Carnival’, 1870–1939 9. From Lambeth to Niagara: Imitation and Innovation among Female Natationists 10. Running Pedestrianism in Victorian Manchester 11. Sporting Entertainments, Discarded Possibilities and the Case of Football as a Variety Sport, 1905–1906 12. Spectacular Bodies: The Swimsuit, Sexuality and Hollywood 13. Cricket, Entertainment, Glamour Industry and Promotional Culture in India, 1913–2013