How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum
The Billy Clyde Conundrum
Published on 5. February 2016
VI, 143 pages
978-1-137-53407-1 (ISBN)
Description
American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.
Reviews / Votes
"This text presents a fascinating examination of its subject and offers an important contribution to our understanding of the role football plays in our culture and society. I recommend it to all academic readers interested in postmodernism or sports culture." (Danielle Sarver Coombs, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 96 (2), 2019)More details
Series
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
VI, 143 p. 3 illus.
File size
2,25 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-53407-1 (9781137534071)
DOI
10.1057/9781137534071
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Robert Kerr
How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum
The Billy Clyde Conundrum
Book
08/2015
Palgrave Pivot
€53.49
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Person
Robert Kerr is Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor at Gaylord College, University of Oklahoma, USA.
Content
1. Introduction - Why This Game, Why This Story
2. America Meets Football, and Football Meets Frank Merriwell
3. Time Runs Out on the Wholesome Warrior
4. Center Stage for Billy Clyde
5. Scenes from the Conundrum in Motion
6. A Postmodernist Theory of Football
7. Life in the Hyper-Mediated Marketplace of Football Narratives
8. A Merriwellean Billy Clyde from a Postmodern Beer a Minute
9. Two-Tiered Gender System Encounters Emotion Work
10. Conclusion - Football, Postmodernism, and Us
2. America Meets Football, and Football Meets Frank Merriwell
3. Time Runs Out on the Wholesome Warrior
4. Center Stage for Billy Clyde
5. Scenes from the Conundrum in Motion
6. A Postmodernist Theory of Football
7. Life in the Hyper-Mediated Marketplace of Football Narratives
8. A Merriwellean Billy Clyde from a Postmodern Beer a Minute
9. Two-Tiered Gender System Encounters Emotion Work
10. Conclusion - Football, Postmodernism, and Us
