Players all : performances in contemporary sport /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[1998]
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| Series: | Drama and performance studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Sport as performance : setting the stage
- Dropping hierarchies : toward the study of a contemporary sporting avant-garde
- Sport as kitsch : a case study of The American gladiators
- Sport as avant-garde : a case study of the World Wrestling Foundation
- Sport as epiphanic marker : a case study of Super Bowl XXVI
- Sport as postmodern construction : a case study of paintball
- Sport as constructed audience : a case study of ESPN's The eXtreme games
- Sport as postmodern tourism : warp speed in Barcelona (olympism, ideology, and experience).