Players All: Performances in Contemporary Sport

by Robert E. Rinehart

"Players All is a stunning accomplishment, an agenda-setting work; it opens the space for a bold, and innovative, critical, performance-based discourse on mass sport, sport as entertainment, and spectatorship in the global, postmodern society." --Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign In a book that is both scholarly and engagingly personal, Robert E. Rinehart takes us into the world of contemporary sport performances, from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253212235
• ISBN13: 9780253212238
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Engaging -- Breaks New Ground ...

A truly engaging read! Well researched & well written. The author breaks new ground by examining the many facets of sport from a postmodern perspective in ways I have not seen before. This is a book definitely worth reading (especially chapter seven) ... Highly recommended!!