The Making of Sporting Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780415468367 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 168 str.

E. Hughson John

Opis

The Making of Sporting Cultures develops a cultural historical approach to the study of sport, allowing for an appreciation of how sporting cultures are actively made by people as social agents and how sports become located within the 'common culture' of different nations across time.

Spis treści

1. The Making of Sporting Cultures: Introduction  2. Cultural History and the Study of Sport  3. The Ancient Sporting Legacy: Between Myth and Spectacle  4. Science, Culture and the Sporting Body  5. The Working Class and the Making of Sport  6. The Middle Class, Colonialism and the Making of Sport  7. On Sporting Heroes  8. The Modern City and the Making of Sport  9. Sport and History on the Ground: Documentary and the Feature Film  10. The ‘Global Triumph’ of Sport

O autorze

Professor of Sport and Cultural Studies, University of Central Lancashire, England