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Sport, media and mega-events /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Wenner, Lawrence A. (Editor), Billings, Andrew C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Subjects:
Mass media and sports.
Mass media and sports > Social aspects.
Sports > Anthropological aspects.
Hosting of sporting events > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • "Art I : Framing Sport, Media and Mega-Events
  • The Curious Case of the Megasporting Event: Media, Mediatization and Seminal Sports Events / Andrew C. Billings and Lawrence A. Wenner
  • Sports Mega-Events: Mass Media and Symbolic Contestation / John Horne
  • Media Events, Mega-Events and Social Theory: From Durkheim to Marx Richard Gruneau and James Compton
  • Part II: MegaMedia Sport Event Studies
  • 28 Olympic Summers: Historical and Methodological Reflections on Understanding the Olympic Mega-Event / Alan Tomlinson
  • 22 Olympic Winters: The Media and the (Non)Making of the Games / Pirkko Markula
  • The FIFA World Cup: Media, Football and the Evolution of a Global Event / Richard Haynes and Raymond Boyle
  • The Rugby World Cup Experience: Interrogating the Oscillating Poles of Love and Hate / Toni Bruce
  • The International Cricket Council World Cup: A Second Class MegaMediaSport Event? / Dominic Malcolm and Thomas Fletcher
  • Wimbledon: A MegaMediaSport Tradition / Eileen Kennedy, Laura Hills, and Alistair John
  • The Masters Golf Tournament: Media Mega-Event and the Environment Meet the Augusta National Syndrome / Brad Millington and Brian Wilson
  • Tour de France: Mediatization of Sport and Place / Kirsten Frandsen
  • The Monaco Grand Prix and the Indianapolis 500: Projecting European Glamour and Global Americana / Damion Sturm
  • The AFC Asian Cup: Continental Competition, Global Disposition / David Rowe
  • Super Bowl: Mythic Spectacle Revisited / Michael R. Real and Lawrence A. Wenner
  • The World Series: Baseball, American Exceptionalism and Media Ritual / Michael L. Butterworth
  • The NCAA Basketball Championships: March Madness Goes Global / Bryan E. Denham
  • The X Games: Re-imagining Youth and Sport / Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton.