How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum

by Robert Kerr

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137555882
• ISBN13: 9781137555885
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"