The Four-Minute Mile: Historical and Cultural Interpretations of a Sporting Barrier

ISBN-13: 9780415759489 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 168 str.

John Bale; David Howe

Opis

The four-minute mile was roundly believed to be impossible until Roger Bannister shattered the illusion with half a second to spare in May 1954. The essays in this book look at the background to Bannister's achievement and the meaning that was ascribed to it by the media and the public at large.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Sporting Barrier: Historical and Cultural Interpretations of the Four-Minute Mile  John Bale & P. David Howe  2. The Idea of the Record  Jim Parry  3. Bannister’s Feat in Austere Times: The Construction and Reproduction of a Sporting Trope  Alan Tomlinson  4. How Much of a Hero? The Fractured Image of Roger Bannister  John Bale  5. Roger Bannister’s American Image  Caroline Collins  6. The Four Minute Mythology: Documenting Drama on Film and Television  Garry Whannel  7. Inhibiting Progress: The Record of the Four-Minute Mile  Jim Denison  8. Amphetamine and the Four-Minute Mile  John Hoberman  9. Training Theory and Why Roger Bannister was the First Four-Minute Miler  Arnd Kruger  10. Habitus, Barriers and the [Ab]use of the Science of Interval Training in the 1950s  P. David Howe

O autorze

John Bale, University of Aarhus.

P.David Howe, Loughborough University.