Sports TV

ISBN-13: 9780415722933 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 196 str.

Victoria E. Johnson

Opis

Readers of the Routledge Television Guidebook on Sports will be introduced to the history of sports television in the United States, the genre's definition, and its critical significance for the business practices, formal properties, and social, cultural, and political meanings of the medium. Each chapter includes a case-study that applies critical analysis to sports television in reader-friendly and familiar, broadly-relatable examples, giving readers models by which to engage in their own critical readings as applied to other sites of sports TV and sport culture. Relying on a range of examples--from Sunday Night Football to March Madness to the Olympics -Victoria Johnson proposes that sports, as seen on TV, is the central cultural forum for working through questions of community ideals, struggles over national and regional mythologies, and questions of representative citizenship.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. "Not A Traditional Business": Sports TV as For-Profit Public Good? 2. Sportvision: The Texts and Tech of Sports TV 3. Generation IX: Sports TV, Gender and Voice 4. The Level Playing Field? Sports TV and Cultural Debate 5. The Sports Media Ecosystem: Sports TV’s Out-of-Home Communities

O autorze

Victoria E. Johnson is Professor of Film and Media Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her Heartland TV: Prime Time Television and the Struggle for U.S. Identity (2008) was awarded the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award in 2009. She writes about the cultural history of US television by examining its popular geographic mythologies, representations of race and place, and sports media.