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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Product Group
- Book
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780807820834
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Reading Football : How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Genre
- Sports & Recreation, Social Science
- Topic
- Men's Studies, General, Popular Culture, History, Football
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 11 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Is football an athletic contest or a social event? Is it a game of skill, a test of manhood, or merely an organized brawl? Michael Oriard, a former professional player, asks these and other intriguing questions in Reading Football , the first contemporary book about football's formative years. American football began in the 1870s as a game to be played, not watched. Within a brief ten years, it had become a great public spectacle with an immense following, a phenomenon caused primarily by the voluminous commentary about the game conducted in popular newspapers and magazines. Oriard shows how this constant narrative in football's early years developed many different stories about what the game meant : football as pastime, as the sport of gentlemen, as a science, as a game of rules and their infringements. He shows how football became a series of cultural stories about power, luck, strategy, and deception. These different interpretations have been magnified by football's current omnipresence on television. According to Oriard, televised football now plays a cultural role of enormous importance for men, yet within the field of cultural studies the influence of football has been ignored until now. From the book: "A receiver sprints down the sideline, fast and graceful, then breaks toward the middle of the field where a safety waits for him. From forty yards upfield the quarterback releases the ball; it spirals in an elegant arc toward the goalposts as the receiver now for the first time looks back to pick up its flight. The pass is a little high; the receiver leaps, stretches, grasps the ball--barely, fingers clutching--at the very moment that the safety drives a helmet into his unprotected ribs. The force of the collision flings the receiver backward, slamming him to the turf. . . . This familiar tableau, this exemplary moment in a football game, epitomizes the appeal of the sport: the dramatic confrontation of artistry with violence, both equally necessary."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807820830
ISBN-13
9780807820834
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1515393
Product Key Features
Book Title
Reading Football : How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Men's Studies, General, Popular Culture, History, Football
Publication Year
1993
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Social Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
11 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gv950.O75 1993
Copyright Date
1993
Lccn
92-042840
Dewey Decimal
796.3230973
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Cultural Studies of the United States Ser.
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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