Sport, Media and Society

by Eileen Kennedy and Laura Hills

Book Overview

Sport is an integral component of today's media, from prime-time television to interactive websites. This book is a theoretical and methodological guide to analysing sport in its diverse mediated forms. Students of media sport are taken through techniques of analysis for film, TV, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, spaces such as stadia and museums, and the internet. The ambiguous and shifting cultural politics of sport are explored through original,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845206878
• ISBN13: 9781845206871
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"